superstar

From super- + star.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.pəˌstɑː/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.pɚˌstɑɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsʉː.pəˌstaː/

superstar (plural superstars)

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

   Hypernyms: star < person

   Near-synonym: all-star (sometimes synonymous)

2. (corporate jargon) An exceptionally productive employee.

   Hypernyms: star < person

   Near-synonym: all-star (sometimes synonymous)

   • 2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 December 2022:

     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^[2], archived from the original on 28 August 2020:

     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^[3], archived from the original on 11 February 2023:

     "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^[4], archived from the original on 7 February 2023:

     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; (loosely) any giant star, bright giant, supergiant, or hypergiant.

   Hypernyms: star < celestial object, celestial body

   • 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4‎^[5], →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?‎^[6], 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^[7], 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.

• megastar
• superstardom

• “superstar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• pasturers, pretarsus, super-rats, superrats

Borrowed from English superstar.

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ.staʁ/

superstar f (plural superstars)

1. superstar (person)

• “superstar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /su.persˈtar/, /su.pesˈtar/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: su‧per‧stàr

superstar f (invariable)

1. superstar, megastar

Borrowed from English superstar.

superstar n (plural superstaruri)

1. superstar

Unadapted borrowing from English superstar.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsupeɾesˈtaɾ/ [ˌsu.pe.ɾesˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: su‧pers‧tar

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

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.