Meaning

6 senses
  1. (literally, uncountable, usually)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.

    We are all made of stardust.

    kosmischer Staub

    косми́ческая пыльkosmíčeskaja pylʹ, межзвёздная пыльmežzvjózdnaja pylʹ, рома́нтикаromántika

  2. (dated, informal, literally, uncountable, usually)A distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust, especially if the individual stars of which cannot be resolved with a telescope.

    Sternenstaub

    звёздная пыльzvjózdnaja pylʹ

  3. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Something imaginary or lacking substance.

  4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)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.

    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.

  5. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)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.

  6. (archaic, literally, uncountable, usually)Small fragments in the Earth's atmosphere or on its surface originating from meteorites; meteor dust.

More definitions
  • a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality

Examples

1 sentences
  1. We are stardust.

    ruМы звёздная пыль. — marafon

    deWir sind Sternenstaub. — carlosalberto

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
small fragments of dust-like material found in space:
distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small fragments of dust-like material found in space:
distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust:

Origin

From star + dust.

From star + dust.

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Forms

plural: stardusts
Singularstardust

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

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