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English

Etymology

From super- +‎ star.

Pronunciation

Noun

superstar (plural superstars)

  1. Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
  2. (corporate jargon) An exceptionally productive employee.
    • 2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-28:
      Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.
    • 2017 May 19, Hui Liao, “Career Coach: How to handle the new hotshot on your team”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2020-08-28:
      Is your organization looking for its next new hire, that superstar performer to take things to the next level? Be careful: Organizations are greater than just one individual. If you're that superstar, remember to be a good team player. You'll feel better about your job and you'll perform at an even higher level.
    • 2017 October 15, Tara Golshan, “Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up”, in Vox‎, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:
      "A superstar employee that is creating that toxic work environment is probably costing that company more than he or she is bringing in," Martin says.
    • 2022 June 27, Ariel Shapira, “As 'Tindery' hiring dies down, Unboxable's AI steers companies toward retention”, in The Jerusalem Post‎, archived from the original on 2023-02-07:
      There's no sense in hiring a superstar developer who will quit after three months because she can't stand the management style or requires flexibility the hiring company doesn't offer.
  3. (rare, astronomy) A giant star.
    • 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4‎, →ISBN, page 11:
      The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract..
    • 1975, Harold W. G. Allen, The Edge of the Universe: What is Our Destiny? Is There Life After Death? What Incredible Secret Lies in the Depths of Space?‎, Allen Book Pub., page 36:
      Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.
    • 1979, Michael Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe‎, Harper and Row, →ISBN, page 379:
      Perhaps a supermassive cluster can coalesce to form a superstar -- a star with a mass of 1 million to 100 million solar masses.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar.

Pronunciation

Noun

superstar f (plural superstars)

  1. superstar (person)

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar. By surface analysis, super- +‎ star.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /su.perˈstar/, /su.peˈstar/
  • Rhymes: -ar
  • Hyphenation: su‧per‧stàr

Noun

superstar f (invariable)

  1. superstar, megastar

References

  1. ^ superstar in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar.

Noun

superstar n (plural superstaruri)

  1. superstar

Declension

Declension of superstar
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) superstar superstarul (niște) superstaruri superstarurile
genitive/dative (unui) superstar superstarului (unor) superstaruri superstarurilor
vocative superstarule superstarurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English superstar.

Pronunciation

Noun

superstar m or f by sense (plural superstars)

  1. superstar
    Synonym: superestrella
    • 2007, El sueño de Morfeo, Mi columna de opinión:
      No soy una superstar aunque haya fotos en revistas y fans
      I'm not a superstar even if there are photos in magazines and fans

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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