North-star synonyms

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polaris
A star located at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Minor, approximately 408 light years from Earth, and almost at the north celestial pole.
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lodestar
A star by which one directs one's course; esp., the North Star
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polestar
A center of attraction
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polar-star
Alternative form of pole star.
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star (related)
Any of the celestial bodies visible to the naked eye at night as fixed, usually twinkling points of light, including binary and multiple star systems.
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cynosure
Any person or thing that is a center of attention or interest
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guiding star
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Find another word for north-star. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for north-star, like: pole-star, polaris, lodestar, polestar, polar-star, star, cynosure and guiding star.
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North-star Sentence Examples

  • One real runaway slave, among the rest, whom I helped to forward toward the north star.

  • In the same year he was nominated a Grand Cross in the Imperial Order of the Rose of Brazil; he also held the Prussian Order "Pour le Merite," and belonged to the Legion of Honour of France and to the Order of the North Star of Sweden and Norway.

  • In spite of his doctrinal writings - which at the time made no little noise, so that his Compendium of Dogmatic (1760) was confiscated in Sweden, and the knighthood of the North Star was afterwards given him in reparation - it was the natural side of the Bible that really attracted him, and no man did more to introduce the modern method of studying Hebrew antiquity as an integral part of ancient Eastern life.

  • In 1910 Knud Rasmussen founded the station of Thule in North Star Bay, Wolstenholme Sound, as a trading station and a base for researches.

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