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STARRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does starred mean?
• STARRED (adjective)
The adjective STARRED has 1 sense:
1. marked with an asterisk
Familiarity information: STARRED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked with an asterisk
Synonyms:
asterisked; starred
Context example:
the starred items
Similar:
marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)
Context examples
"Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns," said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Messner set up his light sheet-iron stove and starred a fire.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I have now concluded. It merely remains for me to substantiate these accusations; and then, with my ill-starred family, to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an encumbrance. That is soon done.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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