starred
adjEtymology From Middle English sterred, equivalent to star (noun) + -ed.
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Having a star or stars.
- a Michelin-starred restaurant
- She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.1823, Mary Shelley, Valperga:
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- The Michelin system is not what it used to be. According to a report by University College London, starred restaurants are statistically more likely to close down than highly rated venues without the accolade.2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- ill-starred, nonstarred