Silver Star

noun

: a U.S. military decoration awarded for gallantry in action

called also Silver Star Medal

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Rodrigo also introduced the Silver Star Ticket program, offering a limited number of affordable $20 USD tickets (or local equivalent) to make her concerts accessible to more of her fans. Kristen Wisneski, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024 Farah Kassem Silver Star for Documentary Film Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat (Bel, Fr, Neth) Dir. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024 Everything, from having the Silver Star program — where fans could get a limited number of tickets everywhere around the arena for something like $20 — to looking at the landscape of touring artists and trying to price our tickets somewhere in the middle of them, was very intentional. Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2024 The Northeast fall sale comes ahead of Amtrak’s plans to create a brand-new route, the Floridian line, temporarily combining the Capitol Limited and Silver Star lines. Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Silver Star 

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Silver Star was in 1932

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“Silver Star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Silver%20Star. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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