silver star medal

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   a United States military decoration for gallantry in action

   SynonymsSilver Star

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Questions about silver star medal

What does silver star medal mean?

silver star medal means "a United States military decoration for gallantry in action".

What is another word for silver star medal?

Close synonyms include Silver 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 silver star medal a common word?

silver star medal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.