barnstar

noun

Etymology

From barn + star. In the wiki sense a reference to the communal practice of barnraising, introduced on the MeatballWiki in the early 2000s and adopted by Wikipedia in 2003.

  1. derived from *h₂stḗr
  2. inherited from *sternô
  3. inherited from *sterrō
  4. inherited from steorra
  5. inherited from sterre
  6. compounded as barnstar — “barn + star

Definitions

  1. A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but…

    A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.

  2. A lucky charm resembling a star plate, similar to a horseshoe

  3. An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or…

    An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.

    • There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for barnstar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA