Stardust

Quick meaning: Stardust is a noun meaning A distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust, especially if the individual stars of which cannot be resolved with a telescope.

Meaning

A distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust, especially if the individual stars of which cannot be resolved with a telescope.

More Meanings

1. Small fragments in the Earth's atmosphere or on its surface originating from meteorites; meteor dust.
2. Something imaginary or lacking substance.
3. An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
4. An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
5. Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.

Example Sentences

We are all made of stardust.

His [Sickert's] paint has a tangible quality; it is made not of air and star-dust but of oil and earth.

My sister’s eyes were full of stardust – she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.

Presolar grains were isolated in primitive meteorites only 15 years ago. These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta.

Word Forms

• stardusts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speck, dust, dirt, star, stardrift, starscape.

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