Definition of star:

part of speech: verb

To adorn or stud with stars; to bespangle; in familiar language, to appear as an actor in a provincial theatre among inferior players.

part of speech: noun

One of the many twinkling luminous bodies seen in the firmament on a clear night; any luminous body, particularly when it appears in the sky; an ornamental figure rayed like a star, as a badge of knighthood; a person or thing unusually attractive or brilliant; a mark of reference, also called an asterisk; in the plu., a configuration of the planets as supposed to affect destiny.

Usage examples:

• She imagined a point distant as a low star upon the horizon of the dark. Virginia Woolf in "Night and Day".

• The angular altitude of the sun, star or planet does the same. Ernest Gallaudet Draper in "Lectures in Navigation".

• Instead, on Christmas Eve, when the first star appeared in heaven, a little tree in Mr. Rawlinson's tent, intended for Nell, was illuminated with hundreds of candles. Henryk Sienkiewicz in "In Desert and Wilderness".

• Now each star in the heavens is in reality a sun, i. Ernest Gallaudet Draper in "Lectures in Navigation".