Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A celebrity famous for appearances in radio broadcasts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, media, radio
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noun
A discrete astronomical radio source
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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History
From radio + star; see star (“celebrity”).
From being discrete astronomical radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation sources found in the sky, which would twinkle when the Earth's ionosphere varies.
