Meaning of pentagram in English

pentagram
noun [ C ]
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/ˈpen.t̬ə.ɡræm/ uk
/ˈpen.tə.ɡræm/
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a star with five points, drawn using five straight lines, sometimes used as a symbol of magic:
He said he was interested in the occult, which explained the pentagram tattoo.
 
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(Definition of pentagram from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of pentagram

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Their lyrics and pentagram-strewn lyric sheets are discovered by their high-school guidance counselors.
From A.V. Club
The best known among these maps is the pentagram map [40, 41] acting on the moduli space of n-gons in the projective plane.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
For you the circle has not been traced nor the pentagram fixed, for you no law has been thrust down.
From Project Gutenberg
There was a warning that it would work without the pentagram, sugar and bitters, but at parlous risk to the conjurer without such protection.
From Project Gutenberg
A very favorite tavern sign in the later times also dates from high antiquity, namely, the pentagram, triangles intersecting so as to make this figure [* hexagram symbol].
From Project Gutenberg
A reversed pentagram is on the forehead.
From Project Gutenberg
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Translations of pentagram

in Chinese (Traditional)
（象徵魔力、神秘等的）五角形符號…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
（象征魔力、神秘等的）五角形符号…
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pentagrama…
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