Meaning: star

Illustrative Context

There were many stars in the night sky.

Target Sense

• The most generic noun for the stars of the night sky.
• Avoid more specific terms for particular types or colours of star: e.g. especially bright stars, twinkling stars, etc..
• Do not focus on technical, astronomical definitions, but simply follow popular usage. Do not provide technical terms, and do not be concerned if popular usage of the basic ‘star’ word can also extend beyond the technically correct: e.g. English shooting star, or_morning/evening star_ to refer to the planet Venus.
• The lexeme selected should normally be applicable to a single, standalone visible star, and will therefore normally be a singular. Nonetheless, if the more basic lexeme in your language is a collective or non-count noun for ‘the stars’ in general (perhaps with single stars referred to by a singulative form), then that basic collective term can be entered instead.
• Do not provide the proper name of any individual star, e.g. the Pole Star, Arcturus.
• Do not enter terms that mean specifically the sun (i.e. the earth’s star), which is a separate IE-CoR meaning sun.
• Avoid any terms that are used predominantly or only in more specific or figurative senses of ‘star’, e.g. for navigation (lodestar, guiding star), brightness, fame, or the figurative ‘star-shape’ (four, five or six-pointed).