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Definition: Stardust |
StardustNoun1. A dreamy romantic or sentimental quality. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stardust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
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Medicine | Some of the argot names for cocaine: C, Cecil, Coke, dust, happy-dust, heaven-dust, and stardust. . . . . lady snow: cocaine. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Stardust is the name of several things:
- Stardust (song), a song by Hoagy Carmichael.
- Stardust (book), an illustrated novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.
- Stardust (album), a record album by Willie Nelson.
- Stardust (spacecraft), a comet coma sample return spacecraft.
- Stardust (comic-book character), a fictional superheroine appearing in Femforce.
- An airplane called Stardust crashed in Chile in 1947; see Stendec.
- Stardust (game), a computer game.
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Stardust (1998) is the second solo prose novel by the author Neil Gaiman. It was, however, originally conceived by both author and artist Charles Vess as a "story book with pictures", created by both, and to be published by DC Comics. Initially it was released in 1997 in what is known in the medium of comics as a "prestige" format four issue mini series. This means it came out once a month in a square bound high gloss “comics pamphlet” of sorts with high grade paper, high quality color and no advertisements.Gaiman and Vess originally intended the story to be released complete, as a single book which would better reproduce the beautiful painted illustrations of Vess and be a “story book” for all ages, and a release in this format was made in 1998. There was both a hardback (ISBN 1-56389-431-9) and a trade paperback edition (ISBN 1-56389-470-X). It is more accurately titled Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust (Being A Romance Within The Realm of Faerie). The hardback edition is quarter-bound in faux leather with the author's names, title and several stars inlaid in foil. It also has reproductions of the comic book covers and many sketches by Vess. The trade paperback has a very different cover design and illustrations by Vess, and has subsequently been reprinted with another different cover design.
Gaiman retains the copyright to the prose and in 1999 decided, encouraged by publisher Avon, to publish Stardust as a conventional novel in hardback without illustrations. There was also a subsequent UK hardcover edition, from Headline. The book also proved popular with readers of the "romance" genre, though it is generally considered part of the fantasy genre. Thus the paperback publication was given three different covers which when placed side by side had one background image and a different primary image including the handsome man holding a woman in a passionate embrace.
Stardust is the book by which many people discover Gaiman, as the second paperback edition was published by Perennial (ISBN 0-06-093471-9) when American Gods began to sell quite well. The illustrated hardback edition, long out of print, is prized by fans and commands quite high prices as a collectible. The illustrated edition of Stardust also seems to be the book that most often interests readers in Gaiman's comic work.
It is a novel consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsanay. It is concerned with the adventures and romantic destiny of a young man who is an inhabitant of the village of Wall, and has a very different tone and style to the rest of Gaiman's prose fiction. Gaiman has occasionally made references to writing a sequel, or at least another book concerning the village of Wall.
In 1999, Green Man Press produced a portfolio entitled A Fall of Stardust, which contains (among other things) a chapbook which forms a prologue to Stardust, entitled Wall, A Prologue. (The rest of the portfolio consists of another chapbook, The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse (by Susanna Clarke), and a collection of fantasy art including pieces by the illustrator of Stardust, Charles Vess.)
One of the characters in Stardust is a large tree with red leaves that talks. The character was based on singer/songwriter (and friend of Gaiman) Tori Amos. She references this in the song "Horses" on her 1996 album "Boys For Pele." She sings "And if there is a way to find me you will find me/but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?"
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"Stardust" is a famous popular song by Hoagy Carmichael."Stardust" was was composed and first recorded for Gennett Records by Hoagy Carmichael's band in 1927 as a peppy jazz number. Carmichael said he was inspired by the types of improvisations made by Bix Beiderbecke. The tune at first only attracted moderate attention, mostly from fellow musicians, a few of whom (including Don Redman) recorded their own versions of Carmichael's tune.
Carmichael reworked the tune as a slow ballad in 1929, and the same year had lyrics added to it by Mitchell Parish. Carmichael wanted to make a new recording of the tune for Gennett, but the Gennett executives vetoed the idea since they already had Carmichael's earlier recording of the tune in their catalogue. Bandleader Isham Jones, however, recorded Carmichael's new arrangement of "Stardust" which became the first of many hit records of the tune. By 1932 over two dozen other bands had recorded "Stardust".
"Stardust" became a standard of the big band era, covered by almost every prominent bandleader and singer of the generation. An arrangement by Glenn Miller was very popular; versions recorded by Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holliday are all particularly well regarded. Some critics have called "Stardust" the finest love ballad ever written. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.
External Link
- Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust"
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Stardust is a interplanetary spacecraft launched February 7 1999. In January 2004 it will meet a comet called Wild 2 and study it. Sample material will be returned to Earth with a capsule in 2006. Additionally the spacecraft passed within 3300 km of the asteroid 5535 Annefrank on November 2 2002 and took several photographs.
External link
- http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/Home.html
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Crosswords: Stardust |
| Specialty definitions using "stardust": Cecil ♦ happy- dust, heaven-dust. (references) |
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Screenplays | And we'd just had dinner at the Stardust Hotel, one of the eight international restaurants -- I believe it was Aku Aku, the Polynesian (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) Stardust on the Sage (1942) Gall Force: Stardust War (1994) Kidô senshi Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) Gall Force: Stardust War (1988) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Stardust. Credit: NASA. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The stars began to crumble and a cloud of fine stardust fell through space |
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| "Stardust" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.17% of the time. "Stardust" is used about 29 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) | 55.17% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.93% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stardust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | sne (snow). (various references) | |
Dutch | sneeuw (snow), lijntje (rope), coke (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
French | Scotty, coke, blanc, blanche, blow, came (stuff), Charlie, cheublan, bernice, coco, Corinne, Dame Blanche, Julie, neige, perico, poudre, respirette, Coca. (various references) | |
German | Star dust (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Snow (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Schnee (scag, snow, whisked egg-white), White stuff (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), White Lady (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, boy, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, Helen, Henry, her, horse, jam, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, lady, Mrs.White, nose candy, peanut butter, pimp's drug, scag, she, smack, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white boy, white girl, white lady), Lady snow (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Koks (coke, dough, nonsense, rubbish), Killer Queen (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Jam (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, Jamaica, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Heaven dust (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Flake (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Coke (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Charlie (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκα (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coca bush, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), χιόνι (snow). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אבק פורח, "זי" (delirium, delusion, fancy, hallucination, superstition). (various references) | |
Italian | polvere di stelle (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 星屑 , スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほしくず, スターダスト . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arduststay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | neve (snow), júlia (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), gulosa (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), coca (coca), branca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Russian | космическая пыль (cosmic dust). (various references) | |
Spanish | polvo (dust, grit, jammed, powder, screw), periquito (budgerigar, budgie, love bird, parakeet), perico (parakeet, Pete), perica (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), nieve (snow), faslopa (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), dama blanca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), coca (bun, Coca, coke, head, kink, Napper), charli (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), blanca (half note, minim). (various references) | |
Swedish | stjärnstoff, romantiskt skimmer. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stardust": stardusts. (additional references) | |
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"Stardust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sardasht, scardus. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stardust" (pronounced stÄ"rdu'st) |
| 4 | -d u' s t | sawdust. |
| 3 | -u' s t | wanderlust. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: stratus. | |
-2 letters: starts, status, struts, sturts, sutras, suttas, tarsus, trusts, tussar. | |
-3 letters: adust, darts, dauts, drats, duras, durst, dusts, rusts, sards, stars, start, stats, strut, studs, sturt, suras, surds, sutra, sutta, tarts, tauts, trass, truss, trust, tsars, turds. | |
-4 letters: arts, dart, daut, drat, dura, dust, rads, rats, rust, ruts, sard, star, stat, stud, suds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: stardusts. | |
+3 letters: autostradas, stridulates, transudates, understates. | |
+4 letters: adventurists, resuscitated, sequestrated, subsaturated. | |
+5 letters: industrialist, postgraduates, readjustments, southeastward, southwestward, stepdaughters, stridulations, transductants, transductions, transudations. | |
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