Astarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

astar (not comparable) (predicative)

1. Covered with bright or sparkling objects.

   Synonym: spangled

   • 1903, Katherine Cecil Burton, The Circle‎, New York: A.L. Burt, Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 171:

     […] they could follow the high-rose hedge, already astar with buds.

   • 1959, Mabel Esther Allan (as Jean Estoril), Drina Dances Alone, New York: Scholastic, 1989, Chapter 6, p. 71,

     The hedges were astar with blackthorn and there were primroses and cowslips on the banks.

2. Shining as if with sparks or small points of light.

   Synonyms: sparkling, twinkling

   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 8, in Anne of Green Gables‎, Boston: L.C. Page, pages 79–80:

     She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her hands clasped behind her, her face uplifted, and her eyes astar with dreams.

   • 1993, Anne Gay, chapter 33, in Dancing on the Volcano‎, London: Orbit, page 373:

     Astar with the cold fire of gems, it [the palace] was.

アナグラム

• Rasta, STAAR, atars, rasta, ratas