all-star

[ awl-stahr ]

/ ˈɔlˌstɑr /

adjective

consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all teams in a league or region: Our quarterback was chosen for the all-star team.

consisting entirely of star performers: an all-star cast.

noun

Sports. a player selected for an all-star team.

Nearby words

all-right, all-round, all-rounder, all-singing all-dancing, all-sorts, all-star, all-state, all-terrain bike, all-terrain vehicle, all-time, all-weather

Origin of all-star

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Examples from the Web for all-star

To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At some point in the intervening decades, all of those cards have vanished, save one: my 1978 Reggie Jackson All-Star card.
The Best Quantified Self Site You Haven’t Heard Of|Jamie Todd Rubin|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.
New York’s Hologram King Is Also the City’s Last Pro Holographer|Nina Strochlic|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“This is a prestigious panel, an all-star group,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) gushed of the five people sitting before him.
The Heroin Hearing That Wasn’t|Abby Haglage|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He was an All-Star in 1971, and helped lead the Pirates to a World Series championship that year.
‘No No,’ a Documentary on MLB Pitcher Dock Ellis, Who Pitched a No-Hitter While Tripping on Acid|Marlow Stern|February 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was pretty hard hit by the failure of the All-Star League to go through last year, but hes got plenty left.
Baseball Joe, Home Run King|Lester Chadwick
If ever a magazine merited the designation “all-star number,” your August issue filled the bill.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930|Various
He had "an all-star production," direct from "the leading theatres of the universe."
The Daughter of Anderson Crow|George Barr McCutcheon
It is not my purpose to select an all-star football team from the long list of heroes past and present.
Football Days|William H. Edwards
It sounded the death knell of the All-Star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards.
Baseball Joe Around the World|Lester Chadwick

British Dictionary definitions for all-star

all-star

adjective

(prenominal) consisting of star performers

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Word Origin and History for all-star

all-star

adj.

1893, originally of theatrical casts, from all + star (n.) in the "celebrated person" sense. From 1898 in reference to sports teams.

all-star

adjective

noun

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all-star

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