noun
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a young and inexperienced actress who is projected as a potential star
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a small star
Etymology
Origin of starlet
Example Sentences
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Two years after Mary-Kate Olsen checked herself into rehab for anorexia nervosa, eating disorders turned a hypercritical eye toward every young starlet.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
But he could not make the transition from academy starlet to first team at Liverpool.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Some three weeks later, in February 1964, the Swedish starlet and the bespectacled Brit were married.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
While the fourth player from Spain is Barcelona's teenage starlet Lamine Yamal, who is 10th with $43 million.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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