noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
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"We are all made of stardust."
"His [Sickert's] paint has a tangible quality; it is made not of air and star-dust but of oil and earth."
"My sister’s eyes were full of stardust – she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies."
"Why would experienced deal makers want rock stars and actors to advise them? Why would entrepreneurs seek their money? There is a certain cachet with all that stardust, of course, and perhaps some free publicity."
"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie's fifth album, was released in 1972."
Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
Common synonyms include: celestial imagery, cosmic dust, cosmic metaphor, interstellar dust, magical aura, stellar dust.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie's fifth album, was released in 1972.
Pronounced /ˈstɑːdʌst/.
From star + dust.