: of a superior degree of excellence
a four-star French restaurant

Examples of four-star in a Sentence

a home film library with nothing but four-star pictures
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Here is a list of four-star players who could be moved this coming offseason. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025 Room prices for hotels in New Orleans, where the Super Bowl is taking place, are skyrocketing: The average price for a four-star hotel is $4,625 a night—the highest seen during the week of the Super Bowl, according to data from the Sports Management Research Institute cited by the Athletic. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025 This was the film that finally made a four-star believer out of Roger Ebert, until then a longtime critical holdout on Lynch’s work. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025 In Rio, there were four-star properties with rates as low as $60 per night, for example. Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for four-star 

Word History

Etymology

from the number of asterisks used to denote relative excellence in guidebooks

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of four-star was in 1921

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“Four-star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/four-star. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.

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