superstar

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr Proto-Germanic *sternǭ Proto-West Germanic *sternō Proto-West Germanic *sterrō Old English steorra Middle English sterre English star English superstar From super- + star.

1. Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.

   “Near-synonym: all-star (sometimes synonymous)”

2. An exceptionally productive employee.

   “Near-synonym: all-star (sometimes synonymous)”

   “Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.”

3. A giant star; (loosely) any giant star, bright giant, supergiant, or hypergiant.

   “The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract.”

   “Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.”