STARDUST

stardust

(noun) a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

stardust (usually uncountable, plural stardusts)

(figuratively) a powder with supposedly magic or charismatic qualities.

A type of cosmic dust that condensed from cooling ejected gases from individual presolar stars and incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.

We are all made of stardust.

(informal, dated, astronomy) A distant cluster of stars, resembling a cloud, the individual stars of which cannot be resolved.

Synonyms

• (particles): cosmic dust

Source: Wiktionary



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