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five-pointed

five-pointed

4 3.2
Having five points like a star
  • adjective
  • /ˈfaɪvˌpɔɪntɪd/
: de cinco puntas
  • William Canby reveals the five-pointed star saved from his grandmother's shop.
  • a five-pointed star

Examples

  • A five-pointed star is too difficult to make.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • After a single cut, a perfect five-pointed star remained.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • It's a five-pointed star someone saved for my family.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • It's a pentangle, a five-pointed star.

    An American Werewolf in London (1981)

  • Hannah shows the men one of the five-pointed stars.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Everyone had these large medallions hanging from long chains around their necks, five-pointed stars in a circle.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Thousands of coins display stars, usually five-pointed, for purely decorative purposes, but the occasional coin has a deeper ethnoastronomical significance.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The children made paper decorations shaped like five-pointed stars for the party.

  • She drew a five-pointed star on the paper to illustrate her design.

  • The emblem featured a five-pointed star in its center, symbolizing unity.

Surface Forms

five-pointed positive

Morphology

five-pointed = five + point (transparent) = five + point + ed

Formed from the numeral 'five' + 'point' with the adjectival suffix '-ed', yielding the clear meaning 'having five points'.

Etymology

The word five-pointed starts with five and point, where point means 'tip' or 'sharp end', so imagine a star with five tips. That's why five-pointed describes something that has five distinct points.