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Date "ALL-STAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Relates to the shoe's name. Definition: This term describes a punk wearing old Converse All-Star shoes. Context: May be used any time, especially when describing one's look. Social Source: Punk. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | AWA All-Star Wrestling (1960) The All-Star Bond Rally (1945) All-Star Melody Masters (1944) The Payback All-Star Revue (2001) All-Star Family Fortunes (2001) | |
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![]() | The original country club. An all-star foursome. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Prince of Pilsen by Lüders & Pixley : an enormous all-star revival. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | An all-star cast presenting Shakepeare's sublime tragedy, Romeo & Juliet. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "ALL-STAR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ALL-STAR" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ALL-STAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sztár-szereposztás (all-star cast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 球宴 (baseball all-star game), オー の法則 (all guarantee, all or nothing, all right, all square, all-in-one, all-occasion dress, all-season coat, all-season dress, all-season track, allspice, all-star cast, all-star game, all-wave, all-weather coat, all-weather track, alternative, alternative school, alternative space, aura, aural communication, O.K., oar, Ohm's law, oldie, oldies, omen, oral, oral approach, oral method, oral sex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうえ" (baseball all-star game, courtship, eternity, old acquaintance, old grudge, old relationship, reinforcement, relief, rescue, suspending performance), オールスターキャスト (all-star cast), オールスターゲー (all-star game). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | all-staray сборный (fabricated, farraginous, made, made up, sectional). (various references) estrellar (dash, Fry, slab, star, to shatter). (various references) yıldız oyuncuların oynadığı. (various references) що склада"ться із зірок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ALL-STAR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aelfstan, Ballstar, Elstar, Lelystad, Pallistar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: altars, astral, ratals, talars, tarsal. | |
-2 letters: altar, artal, atlas, ratal, salal, stall, talar, talas. | |
-3 letters: aals, alar, alas, alls, alts, arts, lars, last, lats, rats, sall, salt, slat, star, tala, tall, tars, tsar. | |
-4 letters: aal, aas, ala, all, als, alt, ars, art, lar, las, lat, ras, rat, sal, sat, tar, tas. | |
-5 letters: aa, al, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: astrally, laterals, plastral. | |
+2 letters: claustral, pratfalls, trapballs. | |
+3 letters: alligators, allocators, allografts, fastballer, palliators, pastorally, saltarelli, saltarello, saltcellar, salutarily, stalwartly, tamarillos, tattersall, trackballs, ultrasmall, waterfalls. | |
+4 letters: alleviators, alliterates, allopatries, ancestrally, aquarellist, cadastrally, calculators, carnallites, collaterals, drastically, fastballers, flatlanders, gallantries, ipsilateral, lateralizes, magistrally, mortadellas, portabellas, reallocates, saltarellos, saltatorial, saltcellars, sartorially, satirically, scarlatinal, tarantellas, tattersalls, ultracasual, vacillators. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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