Aster and Star

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Aster noun - Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.

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Star and aster are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Star" instead a noun "Aster".

Star noun - A ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light.

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Aster and star are semantically related. You can use "Aster" instead a noun "Star".

Nearby Words: starred, starry, starlet, starless, stardom

Compare the word "disaster", which has the etymology "away; without" ("dis") + "star; planet" ("aster").

Source: Star-Crossed Lovers
And 'Aster' is Greek for "star", and it turns out he had a star-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.

Source: Video Game / Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
The word "disaster" comes, originally, from astrology, "a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet," from Greek dys="bad" and "aster"="star."

Source: Bad Moon Rising

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