STARDOM


Meaning of STARDOM in English

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.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.