stardust

star·dust

 (stär′dŭst′)

n.

1. Charm or attractiveness that stems from celebrity and tends to forestall criticism: "The relative unknowns ... bring enough style [to the musical] to make up for any perceived lack of stardust" (Charles Isherwood).

2. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being.

3.

a. Dust formed in very hot gasses ejected from stellar atmospheres or in supernova explosions.

b. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use.

c. Minute particles of matter that fall to Earth from the stars. Not in scientific use.

Idiom:

have stardust in (one's) eyes

To be uncritically or unrealistically optimistic.

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stardust

(ˈstɑːˌdʌst)

n

1. (Astronomy) dusty material found between the stars

2. a large number of distant stars appearing to the observer as a cloud of dust

3. a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality or feeling

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star′dust`

or star′ dust`,

n.

1. (not in technical use) a mass of distant stars appearing as tiny particles of dust.

2. a naively romantic quality.

[1835–45]

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

stardust - a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality romance, romanticism - an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

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Translations

stardust

[ˈstɑːdʌst] N (fig) → encanto m, embeleso m

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stardust

n

(Astron) → Sternnebel m

(= naïvely romantic quality) there was stardust in her eyes → in ihrem Blick lag etwas Naiv-Romantisches

(= charisma) → Ausstrahlung f → eines Stars

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