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noun

the leading performer or act in a play, review, film, or the like.

a bravura performance by a featured player or act.

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Origin of star turn

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby star turn

start out, start over, Star Trek, start something, startup, star turn, starvation, starvation wages, starve, starveling, Star Wars

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How to use star turn in a sentence

So far, all the players seemed to be willing to wait their turn.
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It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”
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Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.
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An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.
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Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
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He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
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Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
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Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
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Acetone is derived from decomposition of diacetic acid, and this in turn from beta-oxybutyric acid by oxidation.
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