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starring

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

That which has the specified actor or actors, especially those in lead roles, in its cast.

verb

  1. 1

    That which has the specified actor or actors, especially those in lead roles, in its cast.

    Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston

  2. 2

    Also a form of starpresent participle and gerund of star

noun

  1. 1

    The action of the verb to star.

adjective

  1. 1

    Performing as a star; having the leading role.

    Charlton Heston had a starring role in Ben-Hur.

Forms

plural
starrings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).