Movie Star

Definition: Movie Star

Movie Star

Noun

1. A star who plays leading roles in the cinema.

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

Synonym: Movie Star

The Drama

Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary.

Crosswords: Movie Star

Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I'm going to Bombay, India, to become a movie star! (The Muppet Movie; writing credit: Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl)

A Hollywood movie star just arrived. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

You know, he's a big movie star. What's his name? (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Standing there is a man with Movie Star Eyes (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall)

I'd walk away like a movie star (If You Could Read My Mind; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot)

She coulda been a movie star (Stole; performing artist: Kelly Rowland)

He may not be a movie star ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells)

Moving Indian Movie Star I Am an Old Smoking (1969)

Movie Star American Style (1966)

The Romance of a Movie Star (1920)

A Movie Star (1916)

From Kitchen Mechanic to Movie Star (1916)

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

References

• Movie Star, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Death of a Blue Movie Star (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Young Duke: The Making of a Movie Star (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Movie Star (reference)

• Movie Star Faces (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• MOVIE STAR 5 VIDEO EDITING (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington Gas Light Co. Movie star, Ann Rutherford I. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Arabic 

‏نجمة سينمائي. (various references)

French

vedette de cinéma, star de cinéma. (various references)

German

filmstar (film star). (various references)

Pig Latin

oviemay arstay

Portuguese

atriz de cinema (cinema actress), ator de cinema, astro de cinema. (various references)

Romanian

stea de cinema (film star). (various references)

Spanish

estrella cinematográfica. (various references)

Swedish

filmstjärna (film star). (various references)

illicium verum j.d.jooker, Illicum verum. (various references)

Misspellings

"Movie Star" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moviestar. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amortise, atomiser, travoise, viatores, vitamers, vomiters, votaries.

-2 letters: amorist, amosite, atomies, atomise, erotism, imarets, maestri, maestro, misaver, misrate, moister, mortise, motives, ovaries, smartie, travois, trisome, vastier, verismo, veritas, viators, vitamer, vomiter.

-3 letters: aimers, airest, aivers, aorist, ariose, aristo, armets, armies, averts, avoset, imaret, isomer, master, maters, matres, mavies, merits, metros, misate, miseat, mister.

+1 letter: formatives.

+2 letters: remotivates, variometers.

+3 letters: comparatives, conservatism, earthmovings, malversation, ovariotomies, overestimate.

+4 letters: commiserative, conservatisms, demonstrative, improvisatore, malversations, normativeness, ovariectomies, overambitious, overestimated, overestimates, overmastering, overmedicates, overstimulate, performatives, remonstrative, remotivations.

+5 letters: commemoratives, demonstratives, improvisatores, microgravities, overdramatizes, overenthusiasm, overestimating, overestimation, overmaturities, overstimulated, overstimulates, removabilities, transformative, vermiculations.