film star

1. 1.

   a star who plays leading roles in the cinema

   Synonymsmovie star

   Broaderstarscreen actor

Questions about film star

What does film star mean?

film star means "a star who plays leading roles in the cinema".

What is another word for film star?

Close synonyms include movie star. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is film star a common word?

film star is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.