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ALL-STAR

Date "ALL-STAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)


Specialty Definition: ALL-STAR

DomainDefinition

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.

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Modern Usage: ALL-STAR

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ALL-STAR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Heaven's All-Star Jazz Band (reference)

  • Nba All-Star Slam Dunk Sticker Book (Nba) (reference)

  • The Tall Mexican: The Life of Hank Aguirre All-Star Pitcher, Businessman, Humanitarian (reference)

  • Nba All-Star Kevin Garnett (Nba Readers) (reference)

  • Polar Bear: Growing Up in the Icy North (Reader's Digest All-Star Readers Level 3) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 - An All-Star Birthday Celebration (reference)

  • Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (reference)

  • The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ALL-STAR

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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.

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Usage Frequency: ALL-STAR

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ALL-STAR

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

   

Russian 

  

сборный (fabricated, farraginous, made, made up, sectional). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estrellar (dash, Fry, slab, star, to shatter). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yıldız oyuncuların oynadığı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

що склада"ться із зірок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ALL-STAR

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).

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Anagrams: ALL-STAR

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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