Starry
['stɑːrɪ] or ['stɑri]
Definition
(adj.) abounding with or resembling stars; 'a starry night'; 'starry illumination' .
Inputed by Anna--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
(a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
(a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
(a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.
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Examples
- My dear Copperfield, she is the only starry spot in a miserable existence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words, Pure from courtship's flatteries. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In the dusk of the moonless if starry night, lights from windows shone vividly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The camera alike records the secrets of the starry heavens and the bacteria of the microscopic world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Oxford and Cambridge, those once starry centres, were still recovering but slowly from the intellectual ebb of the later eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By his discovery of the law of gravitation he completed the clear vision of the starry universe that we have to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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