Definitions for gold-star

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Gold-Star is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in gold-star (-adglorst).

Definitions for gold-star

noun

  1. a gold-colored star displayed, as on a service flag, to indicate that a member of one's family, organization, or the like, was killed in war as a member of the armed forces.
  2. Informal. symbolic approval or recognition for outstanding merit or effort: anything that represents an outstanding effort or achievement:

Origin of gold-star

An Americanism dating back to 1920-25

Examples for gold-star

The ranks of the gold star Mothers were populated with many women with white hair, mothers to children lost in the Vietnam War.

Lorrie Moore gave Updike a gold star for his “erudition and hard work.”

In the center of each flag Granny had crocheted a gold star.

Those were the happy folks going to see the gold star and the Christmas greens in the church.

The gold star that was pasted on where the sticks crossed was just on a level with his eyes.

She turned slightly, looking at him from beneath the gold star.

One is a gold star, supposed to have been possessed by the legendary Rustem.

The achievement is not a small matter, and I think he will be rewarded with a gold star in economic history.

The gold star, the Christmas greens, had all the more attraction from their vagueness.

There were the flowers glowing in beautiful colours, and the gold star and the gold A, admirably executed.

Word Value for gold-star
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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