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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

How to use star turn in a sentence

Montgomery gets his star turn when his facial recognition and code-breaking “technology” caught the eye of the CIA.
Speed Read: James Risen Indicts The War On Terror’s Costly Follies|William O’Connor|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Glenn Close returns to Broadway for the first time since her star turn as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard 20 years ago.
Fall Broadway Preview: 'This Is Our Youth,' Bradley Cooper as ‘The Elephant Man,' and More|Janice Kaplan|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Also: Where is Lucy Liu's nomination for her staggering and career-defining guest-star turn this season?
2012 Emmy Nomination Snubs & Surprises: ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘The Good Wife’|Jace Lacob|July 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
As exhibited in his recent 60 Minutes star turn, the Ohio congressman cries when asked about crying.
The Daily Beast 2010 Political Awards|Samuel P. Jacobs|December 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST

But come October, Zuckerberg deserves the brief star turn he's got coming as the villain.
Mark Zuckerberg, Movie Villain|Choire Sicha|May 24, 2010|DAILY BEAST
And on such feeble premises the star turn of the performance is to take place: the exchange between workers and entrepreneurs.
The Accumulation of Capital|Rosa Luxemburg
He's the 'star turn' of the enemy's corps, and he fights like the deuce.
Dastral of the Flying Corps|Rowland Walker
We are for the moment the star turn of the show—the brave British sailors whom the ladies delight to honour.
Men, Women and Guns|H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
But the one on the electric standard this evening didn't exactly achieve a star turn!
Far to Seek|Maud Diver
But his star turn was an attempt to crawl up the perpendicular side of a burrow, pushing his load in front of him.
With Our Army in Palestine|Antony Bluett