Synonyms of the word

star

• n. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location…
• n. (astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having…
• n. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or…
• n. (acting) An actor in a leading role.
• n. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
• n. (printing) An asterisk (*).
• n. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
• n. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in…
• n. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
• n. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
• n. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in…
• v. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
• v. (transitive) To feature a performer or a headliner, especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
• v. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.

ace

• n. (card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die.
• n. (card games, dice games) A card or die face so marked.
• n. A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
• n. (tennis) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
• n. (sports) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
• n. (US) (baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
• n. (US) (baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.
• n. (US) (golf) A hole in one.
• n. An expert at something.
• n. A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
• n. (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
• v. (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
• v. (tennis) To win a point by an ace.
• v. (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
• adj. (Britain, slang) Excellent.
• adj. (slang) Asexual. (not experiencing sexual attraction).
• n. (slang) A person who is asexual.

actor

• n. A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.
• n. One who acts; a doer.
• n. One who takes part in a situation.
• n. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
• n. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
• n. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
• n. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

adept

• adj. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
• n. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient.

asterisk

• n. Symbol (*).
• n. (sports, US) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
• n. (biology) Alternate of Asteriscus.
• v. To mark with an asterisk symbol (*).

champion

• n. Someone who has been a winner in a contest.
• n. Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
• n. Someone who fights for a cause or status.
• n. Someone who fights on another's behalf.
• adj. (attributive) Acting as a champion; that has defeated all one's competitors.
• adj. (attributive) Excellent; beyond compare.
• adj. (predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
• v. (usually of a cause) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for.

character

• n. A being involved in the action of a story.
• n. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
• n. A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
• n. Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
• n. A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially…
• n. A written or printed symbol, or letter.
• n. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
• n. (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing…
• n. (informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
• n. (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
• n. Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
• n. (dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
• n. (dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To write (using characters); To describe.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

execute

• v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
• v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
• v. (transitive) To perform.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
• v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.

expert

• adj. Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
• adj. Characteristic of an expert.
• n. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
• n. (chess) A player ranking just below master.

feature

• n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
• n. An important or main item.
• n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
• n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
• n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
• n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
• n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
• n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
• v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
• v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
• v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

genius

• n. (eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated…
• n. Extraordinary mental capacity.
• n. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
• n. (Roman mythology) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
• n. A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.
• adj. (informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.

grapheme

• n. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet…
• n. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

headliner

• n. The headlining band or performer at a concert; the best-known and first billed band, often performing…
• n. The interior fabric covering the roof of a vehicle.

histrion

• n. (obsolete) A stage actor.

hotshot

• adj. Highly skilled.
• adj. Displaying talent.
• n. Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
• n. a type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools…

lead

• n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
• n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
• n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
• n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
• v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
• v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
• v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
• v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
• v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
• v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
• v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
• v. To produce (with to).
• v. Misspelling of led.
• n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
• n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
• n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
• n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
• n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
• n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
• n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
• n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
• n. (countable, mining) A lode.
• n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
• n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
• n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
• n. Charging lead.
• n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
• n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
• n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
• n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
• n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
• n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
• n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
• n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
• n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
• n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
• n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
• adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
• adj. (music) main, principal.
• v. Misspelling of led.

leading

• v. present participle of lead.
• adj. Providing guidance or direction.
• adj. Ranking first.
• adj. Occurring in advance; preceding.
• n. An act by which one is led or guided.
• n. (typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.

major

• n. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.
• adj. Of great significance or importance.
• adj. Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
• adj. Of full legal age, having attained majority.
• adj. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.
• adj. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• adj. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
• n. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at…
• n. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given…
• n. A person of legal age.
• n. (logic) The major premise.
• n. (Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
• n. A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
• n. (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
• v. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

maven

• n. (chiefly US) An expert in a given field.

mavin

• n. Alternative form of maven.

perform

• v. To do something; to execute.
• v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.

performer

• n. One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.

player

• n. One that plays.
• n. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
• n. A significant participant.
• n. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

prima

• adj. most important.

principal

• adj. Primary; most important.
• adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
• n. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are…
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
• n. (law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.
• n. (law) The primary participant in a crime.
• n. A company represented by a salesperson.
• n. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
• n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
• n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss…
• n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
• n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse…
• n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
• n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
• n. (computing) A security principal.

sensation

• n. A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
• n. A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.

starring

• adj. of, relating to, or in the manner of a star.
• v. present participle of star.
• v. (with a film as its subject) That which has the specified actor or actors, especially those in lead roles,…
• n. The action of the verb to star.

stellar

• adj. (astronomy, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
• adj. Heavenly.
• adj. Exceptional; wonderful.

superstar

• n. Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.

thespian

• adj. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical.
• n. An actor or player.

topology

• n. (mathematics) A branch of mathematics studying those properties of a geometric figure or solid that are…
• n. (mathematics) A collection τ of subsets of a set X such that the empty set and X are both members of τ…
• n. (medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
• n. (computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
• n. (technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences…
• n. (topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
• n. (dated) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered…

virtuoso

• n. A person (especially a musician) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
• n. A person who is knowledgeable about art objects and curios.
• adj. Exhibiting the ability of a virtuoso.

whiz

• v. To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
• v. To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
• v. To throw or spin rapidly.
• v. (vulgar, slang) To urinate.
• n. A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
• n. (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
• n. (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination; a wiz.
• n. (Britain, slang, uncountable) Amphetamine.
• prep. (slang) Eye dialect spelling of with.

whizz

• n. Alternative spelling of whiz.
• v. Alternative spelling of whiz.

wiz

• n. a person who is exceptionally gifted or skilled in a particular area.
• n. (Internet, informal) A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.
• n. (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
• prep. (slang, especially represents slurred or drunken speech) Eye dialect spelling of with.

wizard

• n. A man who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
• n. One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
• n. (computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced…
• n. (Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.
• n. (obsolete) A wiseman; a sage.
• adj. (slang, dated, Britain) Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).
• v. (intransitive) To practice wizardry.
• v. (transitive) To conjure.