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starred en · VERB · etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of star
form of star

From Middle English sterred, equivalent to star (noun) + -ed.

(not-comparable) Having a star or stars.
- She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery. 1823, Mary Shelley, Valperga:
- a Michelin-starred restaurant
- The Michelin system is not what it used to be. According to a report by University College London, starred restaurants are statistically more likely to close down than highly rated venues without the accolade. 2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
(not-comparable) Judged as ungrammatical.
- It will also be important to keep in mind that each starred example can be made grammatical by the substitution of a suitable determinate NP in place of the indeterminate one. 1989 [1976], Howard Lasnik, “Remarks on Coreference”, in Essays on Anaphora, Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, page 103:

fr étoilé (having a star) · es destacados (having a star)