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Co-star

Definition: Co-star

Co-star

Noun

1. One of two actors who are given equal status as stars in a play or film.

Verb

1. Feature as the co-star in a performance.

2. Be the co-star in a performance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Co-star

Synonym by domain: Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (transportation).

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Crosswords: Co-star

English words defined with "co-star": co-ordinate, co-sign. (references)

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Modern Usage: Co-star

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Her Co-Star in The Beaver Picture? (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

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

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Commercial Usage: Co-star

DomainTitle

Books

  • Girl Friday: The Co-Star of Absolutely Fabulous Spends 9 Days on a Desert Island [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Co-star

"Co-star" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.07% of the time. "Co-star" is used about 67 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)85.07%5744,859
Lexical Verb (infinitive)14.93%10111,207
                    Total100.00%67N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Co-star

Language Translations for "co-star"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

partner (associate, companion, copartner, mate, mates, pard, pards, partner), einer der hauptdarsteller, als hauptdarsteller auftreten. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

助"者 , 助" . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じょえ"しゃ, じょえ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

o-starcay

   

Spanish

  

coestrella. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spela en av huvudrollerna, person som spelar en av huvudrollerna. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

başrolü paylaşmak, başrolü paylaşan oyuncu. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

виконувати головну роль у парі. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Co-star

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: actors, castor, costar, scrota, tarocs.

Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: actor, ascot, carts, coast, coats, costa, orcas, ratos, roast, rotas, scart, tacos, taroc, taros, toras, torcs.

-2 letters: acts, arco, arcs, arts, cars, cart, cast, cats, coat, cors, cost, cots, oars, oast, oats, ocas, orca, orcs, orts, osar, rato, rats, rocs, rota, rots, scar, scat, scot, soar, sora, sort, star, stoa, taco, taos.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: cantors, captors, carrots, cartons, castors, cavorts, coaster, coaters, contras, costard, costars, cottars, cratons, factors, ostraca, oxcarts, scrotal, surcoat, trocars, turacos.

 

+2 letters: acrobats, acrostic, acrotism, actorish, ancestor, aoristic, apricots, cabestro, cabresto, caltrops, carotids, carotins, carports, cartoons, castrato, chantors, chariots, citators, coactors, coarsest, coasters, comparts, congrats, contrast, copastor, corantos, costards, costmary, courants, creators, cryostat, curators, dogcarts, ectosarc, enactors, escargot, exactors, forecast, haricots, locaters, locators, orgastic, ostracod, ostracon, outraces, overacts, overcast, piscator, postcard, postrace, reactors, redcoats, ricottas, sectoral, stockcar, surcoats, thoraces, touracos, tractors, trochars, turacous.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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