Prima and Star

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Prima adjective - Indicating the most important performer or role.

Usage example: prima ballerina

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Star is a synonym for prima. In some cases you can use "Star" instead an adjective "Prima".

Star adjective - Indicating the most important performer or role.

Usage example: a star figure skater

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Prima is a synonym for star. You can use "Prima" instead an adjective "Star".

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

I Am the Band: Despite joining Joe Meek's team of musicians later than many others, Heinz develops a prima donna attitude once he starts getting billed as a solo star.

Source: Film / Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
It's only at the end of Season One that she's acknowledged as the true prima donna of the stage... whereupon the show got a sequel, and a Post-Script Season saw her "star" status usurped yet again.

Source: Yoyo Plot Point
Just to complete the trifecta, from what little we get to see of when she was a star, she was The Prima Donna.

Source: Film / What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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