superstar
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
superstar (plural superstars)
- Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
- (corporate jargon) An exceptionally productive employee.
- 2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2022-12-28:
- 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, archived from the original on 2020-08-28:
- 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, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:
- "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, archived from the original on 2023-02-07:
- 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.
- (rare, astronomy) A giant star.
- 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4, →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?, 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, 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.
Related terms
Translations
very famous person
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References
- “superstar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
superstar f (plural superstars)
- superstar (person)
Further reading
- “superstar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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