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Lodestar   Listen
noun
Lodestar, Loadstar  n.  
1.
A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor). " Your eyes are lodestars." "The pilot can no loadstar see."
2.
Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure (2).
3.
Something that attracts attention or on which the atention is fixed; a cynosure (3).





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"Lodestar" Quotes from Famous Books



... electrical attraction, electricity, static electricity, static, static cling; magnetism, magnetic attraction; gravity, attraction of gravitation. [objects which attract by physical force] lodestone, loadstone, lodestar, loadstar[obs3]; magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite; electromagnet; magnetic coil, voice coil; magnetic dipole; motor coil, rotor, stator. electrical charge; positive charge, negative charge. magnetic pole; north pole, south pole; magnetic monopole. V. attract, draw; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... sonnets: so here now shall be One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome; Whose service is my special dignity, And she my loadstar while I go and come. And so because you love me, and because I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name: In you not fourscore years can dim the flame Of love, whose blessed glow ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti


Words linked to "Lodestar" :   star, loadstar, polar star, model, North Star, example


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