stella
noun
a four-dollar pattern coin of the U.S. having a metal content based on the metric system, issued 1879–80: designed to be used as an international coin.
stella
1 American
[stel-uh]
/ ˈstɛl ə /
noun
Stella
2
American
[stel-uh]
/ ˈstɛl ə /
noun
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Frank (Phillip), born 1936, U.S. painter.
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Joseph, 1887–1946, U.S. painter, born in Italy.
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a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “star.”
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A comet – by virtue of its unpredictability as a stella errans – a wandering star – induced feelings of instability and possible apocalypse.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2018
And comparing himself to the pilot who suffers shipwreck by night, "Salve," he added piously, "salve, maris stella!"
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Soon after this appeared a new star—the stella nova of 1604—not the one Tycho had seen—that was in 1572—but the same that Kepler was so much interested in.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
Rothmannus, both who thought the Firmament to bee onely aire: and though the noble Tycho De stella.
From The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins
Not the waste waves and their weedy gulf-streams, shalt thou take for guidance: thy star alone,—'Se tu segui tua stella!'
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Team principal Andrea Stella said he believed Norris was driving better than ever.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
As the couple’s children, Stella and Convery acquit themselves well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Life Is a Dream” is, essentially, a collection of love letters: to his wife Stella, to Margam, to the life he knows won’t last forever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
When she wrote “My Brilliant Career,” Miles Franklin—aka Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin—was just a kid, “a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
I see Stella look up through the glass and we make eye contact just as a strong gust of wind knocks the air right out of me.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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