STARRING Definition & Meaning

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starring

[stahr-ing]

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adjective

featured or celebrated as a star in a movie, on a sports team, etc..
He was already the starring quarterback on his high school football team, which was on its way to a state championship.
(of a character or role) leading, central, or primary.
The earliest performance I can remember is when I played the starring role in a drama called The Littlest Angel at church.
As the town’s largest employer, the university also plays a starring role in the local economy.
featuring a specified performer.
They didn't give a beginner a starring movie when I started acting 18 years ago.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of starring¹

star ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

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With his starring role on Wednesday, Foden could also prove integral to City's hopes of success in the competition.

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Whether the movie itself is a bomb or a blockbuster doesn’t matter; if Dakota Johnson is starring in it, people will talk about it either way.

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The curfew remains in effect Wednesday, and Center Theatre Group has again been forced to cancel director Robert O’Hara’s world-premiere adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic, starring Patrick Ball from the hit Max show “The Pitt.”

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A biopic of his life and career, Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack and Paul Dano playing Wilson at different stages, was released to critical acclaim in the same year.

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Patsy Ferran, starring opposite Paul Mescal in the Almeida Theatre production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, was, hands down, the best performance I saw all year.

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