COSTAR Definition & Meaning

costar

or co-star

[ noun koh-stahr; verb koh-stahr ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a performer, especially an actor or actress, who shares star billing with another.
a performer whose status is slightly below that of a star.

verb (used without object)

costarred, costarring.

to share star billing with another performer.
to receive billing of slightly less status than that of a star.

verb (used with object)

costarred, costarring.

to present (two or more actors) as having equal billing or prominence.
to present as having slightly less status than that of a star.

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Origin of costar¹

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; co- + star

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However, Goodwin posted a photo Feb. 20 on social media showing himself bundled up at night with costar Zak Bagans and others in the “Ghost Adventures” crew.

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That medley with “Wicked” costar Cynthia Erivo was gorgeous.

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Eddie Egan, whom Hackman and costar Roy Scheider, in preparing for the film, accompanied on his rounds of heroin “shooting galleries” with his detective partner, Sonny Grosso.

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Like The Times, the real estate analytics firm CoStar drilled narrowly into the value of lost real estate, coming up with a figure of $30.4 billion and about 11,900 dwellings destroyed.

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CoStar found 11,039 single-family homes and 870 apartment units in 74 buildings and used individual valuations for each property from Homes.com to arrive at a total of $29.7 billion for single-family homes, an average of $2.7 million.

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