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starlet

starlet

25 5.9
A young actress promoted as likely to become very famous in movies
  • noun
  • /ˈstɑːrlɪt/
  • Literature
translation icon : actriz prometedora
  • A paparazzi lens has caught a blushing starlet on her birthday with some friends.
  • Hollywood starlet
  • young starlet
  • movie starlet

Off he goes to the Med, to a yacht surrounded by starlets and bikini babes, drinking, smoking, carousing.

Examples

  • And Marilyn Monroe had been one of these early starlets who had totally cultivated her public persona.

  • Once, a wannabe starlet came to our table at the beach.

  • I was nominated for Best New Starlet, like three months in.

  • Now she sees herself as some kind of a starlet.

  • "You look like a starlet," Jeff said bashfully.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Hottest newbie starlet in the biz.

  • First to qualify, as expected, the young Aussie Starlets.

  • And here's your host, that international starlet of stage and screen, Miranda Monroe.

  • Pete's a handsome fellow in his 30s, and Sandra's a pretty starlet in her mid-20s.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • After her breakout role in a popular film, the young actress was quickly labeled a starlet by the media.

Synonyms

actress
vsstarlet
590 1.0

A woman who performs in plays, films, or television

is narrower, referring to a young performer promoted as a future film star

How Famous

superstar
187 2.8
star
1.1
starlet
  • Literature
25 5.9
unknown
629 2.3

Surface Forms

starlet singular
starlets plural

Morphology

starlet = star (transparent) = star + let

The diminutive suffix '-let' yields 'young/small star' and the meaning 'young actress aspiring to be a star' is a direct, productive derivation.

Etymology

Starlet comes from the familiar word star plus the small ending -let, which means 'little'. So a starlet is a 'little star' — a young actress who is starting to become a film star.