STARDUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stardust mean? 

• STARDUST (noun)
  The noun STARDUST has 1 sense:

1. a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality

  Familiarity information: STARDUST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARDUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dreamy romantic or sentimental quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("stardust" is a kind of...):

romance; romanticism (an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure))

 Context examples 

Stardust grains are found in some types of meteorites, which have preserved them since the birth of our solar system.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

You may feel as though you were showered by silvery, sparkling stardust.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The phrase ‘we are all made of stardust’ is one we hear a lot in popular astronomy, but where exactly does this dust come from? says Emily Cannon, a PhD student at KU Leuven working with SPHERE images of red supergiants.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

You can choose to go anywhere, near or far, to take full advantage of the stardust about to fall over you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)