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STARRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does starred mean? 

STARRED (adjective)
  The adjective STARRED has 1 sense:

1. marked with an asteriskplay

  Familiarity information: STARRED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STARRED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked with an asterisk

Synonyms:

asterisked; starred

Context example:

the starred items

Similar:

marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)


 Context examples 


"Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns," said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Messner set up his light sheet-iron stove and starred a fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I have now concluded. It merely remains for me to substantiate these accusations; and then, with my ill-starred family, to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an encumbrance. That is soon done.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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