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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stardom
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s rise to stardom
▪ In this book, he explores the actor’s rise to stardom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
international
▪ Freds wanted fire escape Oh, the pressures of international stardom!
▪ Yet, it is as the leader of a succession of celebrated trios that Peterson achieved international stardom four decades ago.
▪ Despite professed nerves, she performed with all the confidence of an artist on the brink of international stardom.
■ VERB
shoot
▪ In 1929 she shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play.
▪ Disappointment at not getting a sure-thing shot at pop stardom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
catapult sb to fame/stardom etc
shoot to fame/stardom/prominence
▪ In 1929 she shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play.
ticket to success/fame/stardom etc
▪ All too often large advances can seem like a ticket to stardom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Stardom is the ultimate ambition of most young singers and actors.
▪ She feared that by having a baby she had sacrificed her chances of stardom.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both her looks and personality came from a ride to stardom that has been far from comfortable.
▪ But their stardom is of a more recent vintage.
▪ I did it myself to earn stardom.
▪ Nathan is grooming me for stardom.
▪ Sudden rock stardom can do weird things to your head, even if things build slowly, as they did for Weezer.
▪ That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star, even if his appeal was mostly on home territory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stardom

1860 in reference to celebrity, from star (n.) + -dom. From 1856 in reference to the celestial sort.

Wiktionary
stardom

n. the status or position of a performer acknowledged to be a star; fame, celebrity

WordNet
stardom

n. the status of being acknowledged as a star; "stardom meant nothing to her"

Wikipedia
Stardom

Stardom is a 2000 Canadian comedy-drama film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency. The film was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

  • Other titles:
15 Moments (Canada: English title) Stardom (France) Stardom - Le culte de la célébrité (Canada: French title)

Usage examples of "stardom".

Many singers, especially these days, seemed to be more attracted to the spotlight and stardom than the music itself.

I was still fretting over our dashed dreams of stardom when the phone rang.

Mindy and her dreams of porno stardom, Nick followed Cat to the parking lot.

Her entire world of money and fame and stardom had been turned upside down.

Wei Ho courted her to offer a different sort of stardom, in roles where the ambitious, amoral young girl would excel.

OPINION BY DAVID BALLARD Whatserface is the story of the rise to stardom and power of a woman who falls into it all by accident.

Family stardom naturally attracted some antagonism from other young men attempting to get ahead in the organization.

Devastated, depressed, she had lost her dreams of stardom, drowned them in alcohol, burned them away in drugs.

Cindy was also realistic about her former career as an actress---she would never have made the grade to stardom, or have come close to it.

B-movies, apparently, featuring character actors whom stardom had forever eluded.

Second, the main themes of shojo manga include soap-opera dramas of mother-daughter relationships, stories of girls rising to stardom, and love stories.

A local talent contest, though, had suddenly thrust the senior high beauty queen into an acting contract, a contract that eventually led to more stardom than anyone might have predicted.

Second, the main themes of shojo manga include soap-opera dramas of mother-daughter relationships, stories of girls rising to stardom, and love stories.

With Horns and with Hounds I waken the Day And hye to my Woodland walks away, tempestuously bosomed, flaming hair'd, where Mars destroys and I repair, Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day, three million dollars worth of stardom buskin'd in finest calf, twilled thighs spread wide astride the pawing stallion looming over him he rais'd a mortal to the skies.

Actually, the innovated artist had done just that, his garage band making the jump to stardom during the Turn, capitalizing on the opportunity to be the first openly Inderland band.