"movie star" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: movie stars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} movie star (plural movie stars)
  1. A leading actor in a movie, especially one perceived as a celebrity. Wikipedia link: movie star Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms: film star Related terms: star system Translations (star of the cinema): نَجْمَة سِينِمَائِيَّة (najma sīnimāʔiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), نجم أفلام [masculine] (Arabic), 電影明星 (Chinese Mandarin), 电影明星 (diànyǐng míngxīng) (Chinese Mandarin), filmitäht (Estonian), filmitähti (Finnish), star de cinéma [feminine] (French), Filmstar [feminine, masculine] (German), Filmgröße [feminine, masculine] (German), Leinwandgröße [feminine, masculine] (German), αστέρι της ταινίας (astéri tis tainías) (Greek), πρωταγωνιστής της ταινίας (protagonistís tis tainías) (Greek), फ़िल्म स्टार (film sṭār) (Hindi), फिल्म स्टार (philm sṭār) (Hindi), filmsztár (Hungarian), réalta scannán [feminine] (Irish), scoth-aisteoir [masculine] (Irish), star del cinema [feminine] (Italian), 映画スター (eiga sutā) (Japanese), 무비 스타 (mubi seuta) (Korean), 영화 스타 (yeonghwa seuta) (Korean), kinozvaigzne [feminine] (Latvian), താരം (tāraṁ) (Malayalam), ചലച്ചിത്ര താരം (calaccitra tāraṁ) (Malayalam), സിനിമാ താരം (sinimā tāraṁ) (Malayalam), naalkidgo bee bééhoʼdílzin (Navajo), filmstjerne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), filmstjerne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ستاره سینما (setâre-ye sinamâ) (Persian), gwiazda filmowa [feminine] (Polish), gwiazda ekranu [feminine] (Polish), estrela de/do cinema [feminine] (Portuguese), кинозвезда́ (kinozvezdá) [feminine] (Russian), estrella de cine [feminine] (Spanish), filmstjärna [common-gender] (Swedish), кінозі́рка (kinozírka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), minh tinh màn bạc (Vietnamese), bioskopastelan [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), bioskopahistelan [masculine] (Volapük), bioskopajistelan [feminine] (Volapük)

Inflected forms

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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
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      "word": "кінозі́рка"
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      "sense": "star of the cinema",
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.