STELLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stellar mean? 

• STELLAR (adjective)
  The adjective STELLAR has 2 senses:

1. indicating the most important performer or role

2. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars

  Familiarity information: STELLAR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STELLAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicating the most important performer or role

Synonyms:

leading; prima; star; starring; stellar

Context example:

a stellar performance

Similar:

major (of greater importance or stature or rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

astral; stellar

Context example:

stellar light

Pertainym:

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

 Context examples 

Now let’s discuss your two stellar days for financial talks and progress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Although many stellar siblings may form together in tight clusters, stars are always moving, and as they grow older they tend to move farther and farther apart.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

It’s clear now that these molecules form readily in stellar nurseries, providing insights into the chemical evolution of planetary systems, including our own.

(ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space, ESO)

We thought that very massive stars with the chemical composition typical of our galaxy must shed most of their gas in powerful stellar winds, as they approach the end of their life.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Betelgeuse has been a beacon in the night sky for stellar observers but it began to dim late last year.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

Such stellar remnants can still host planets, and many of these star systems are thought to exist in our galaxy.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

But they also revealed what could turn out to be an unexpected variety in the individual details of these cataclysmic stellar events.

(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)

GJ 357 d is located within the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone, where it receives about the same amount of stellar energy from its star as Mars does from the Sun.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

Given that there's no stellar wind to create an aurora on a brown dwarf, researchers are unsure what is generating it on LSRJ1835+3259.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)