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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
five-star
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hotel
▪ As things stand, ministers who oversee large state industries enjoy free accommodation at five-star hotels and foreign travel.
▪ Not five-star hotels, but sometimes air-conditioned or electric fan.
▪ For the size of the island, Madeira must have one of the highest concentrations of five-star hotels anywhere in the world.
▪ Some observers worry that the role of landlord will detract from the primary business of five-star hotels.
▪ It hasn't escaped my notice that you've gone from five-star hotels to virtual slums.
▪ It is a free television channel to three-to five-star hotels in London.
▪ Surely the bar never closed in a five-star hotel?
▪ The pub is like a five-star hotel lounge: huge windows and modern chairs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As things stand, ministers who oversee large state industries enjoy free accommodation at five-star hotels and foreign travel.
▪ But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight, angry pensioners were facing a bleak future.
▪ Don't expect five-star facilities in a one-star hotel.
▪ For the size of the island, Madeira must have one of the highest concentrations of five-star hotels anywhere in the world.
▪ It hasn't escaped my notice that you've gone from five-star hotels to virtual slums.
▪ Not five-star hotels, but sometimes air-conditioned or electric fan.
▪ Originally constructed with 348 rooms in its 12 stories, Checkers reopened with 188 rooms and a five-star restaurant in 1989.
▪ Some observers worry that the role of landlord will detract from the primary business of five-star hotels.
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five-star

Etymology 1

  1. The best quality Etymology 2

    n. 1 A hard slap on bare skin with a hand that leaves a red, fully hand-shaped mark. 2 A mark from such a slap. v

  2. To slap someone hard with the hand on bare skin, leaving a red, fully hand-shaped mark.

Wikipedia
Five-star (album)

"Five-star" is the first greatest hits album by J-pop singer Yuki, released on October 3, 2007 in Japan. This album commemorates the fifth anniversary of her solo debut. The album was released in two formats, a CD only version and a CD+DVD version, which is in a black-and-silver or white-and-gold leather slipcase.

Usage examples of "five-star".

Starting the next day, however, the very prisonlike prison described by Villamizar began to be transformed into a five-star hacienda with all kinds of luxuries, sports installations, and facilities for parties and pleasures, built with first-class materials brought in gradually in the false bottom of a supply van.

Those facing serious felonies will rely on the Michelin restaurant guide for five-star selections, and hope that their judge is hungry.

Asleep in his five-star accommodations, snoring with a contentment that belies three weeks of peevishness, William Hope Planter is now well acclimated to thirteen and a half thousand feet.

In return for a substantial salary, ORCADA provided five-star CX on the German economy and interest rate movements, enabling the Chanceller of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England to adjust Britain's interest rates and economy to best advantage.

He was every bit at home in a five-star restaurant - one he likely owned anyway - nibbling on caviar as he was sitting at home chowing down on a burger.

Marco's loyalty touched him as nothing else, and when they walked into Petro Dorma's office, and Benito saw Angelina already there, looking ready for a five-star tantrum, he realized his brother might actually be the one who needed help, this time.

By comparison, Depression soup kitchens had been five-star restaurants with blue-plate specials.

He took an interest in the vineyards, the factories, even in the day-to-day running of a busy five-star hotel, but bottom lines were Peter's concern, not his.

Of course, they never mention that the alimony I pay each of them allows them to sit on their fashionably dressed derrières in a five-star restaurant for four hours and complain about me.

He immediately depleted them on a ninety-one-pound fashion model, who later abandoned him at a five-star hotel in Morocco.

Soundless and stealthy, that black shadow upon the ceiling grew in size and the binding of the books became obscure where they had before been bright until, after what seemed an eternity of time, no light remained save only the faintest line just above the rim of the top bookshelf, the five candles burning steadily in the points of the five-starred pentagram, and the dying fire.

From nearly all the brick and concrete buildings fluttered the five-starred flag of the People's Republic.

The law office itself had a reception area that might as well have been that of a five-star hotel: a flower arrangement of eighteenth-century density and ostentation, thick mushroom-coloured wall-to-wall, an abstract painting composed of pricey smudges.

The restaurant and its five-star CIA5-trained chef had recently been anointed by Gotham's reigning foodies, and as a result, even on this raw Saturday night there were people lined up halfway down the block waiting for tables.

The ordinary, the average, the standardized, this was what we felt comfortable with, and though we avoided five-star inns and stayed primarily in moderately priced motels, from our point of view we were in hog heaven.