Definitions

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  • proper noun An English surname from a nickname for a gregarious person.
  • proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.

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Examples

  • While Starling is a more complete player, Abrahams has greater upside.

    Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 2010

  • “I call it Starling, after the man who originally drew it,” he said. more

    The history of the Times New Roman typeface The Nag 2009

  • While Starling is a more complete player, Abrahams has greater upside.

    Bethune-Cookman - Team Notes 2010

  • Simon Starling is fascinated by the processes involved in transforming one object or substance into another.

    October 2005 2005

  • You may of heard of it -- heard it called Starling, especially when all those taco shells were taken out of the supermarkets about a year and a half ago.

    Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2002

  • You may of heard of it -- heard it called Starling, especially when all those taco shells were taken out of the supermarkets about a year and a half ago.

    Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2002

  • You may of heard of it -- heard it called Starling, especially when all those taco shells were taken out of the supermarkets about a year and a half ago.

    Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2002

  • In 1902 Loewi also spent some months in Starling's laboratory, in

    Otto Loewi - Biography 1965

  • "Yet the name Starling, -- it is unusual, and it brings troubling memories to my mind."

    Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

  • This one, "nodding to the girl who had just gone back to her seat," we call Starling, because she talks so much, and her sister there is Dove, because she is so gentle.

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

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