• Starhood

    Origin

    star + -hood

    Full definition of starhood

    Noun

    starhood

    (uncountable)
    1. The state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
      • 2002, Tom Siegfried, Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and TimeBrown dwarfs are much bigger than planets but not quite big enough to generate the internal pressure needed to burst into starhood.
      • 2008, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak and Ken Willcox, Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, page 289Near those stars-to-be, other bodies, too low in mass ever to reach starhood, also began to form.
      • 2009, Peter Benjaminson, The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard, page 169It was the only image of the funeral most people saw, making the occasion an emblem of Diana's starhood rather than a celebration of Florence's life and a scene of mourning for her death.

    Synonyms

    • (the state of being a celebrity) stardom
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