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Loadstar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of lodestar.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of lodestar.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor).

n. Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure{2}.

n. Something that attracts attention or on which the atention is fixed; a cynosure{3}.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See lodestar.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy

n. something that serves as a model or guide

Word Usage

"Separated from the Lady Isabelle, whose looks had been for so many days his loadstar, Quentin felt a strange vacancy and chillness of the heart, which he had not yet experienced in any of the vicissitudes to which his life had subjected him."

Equivalent

lodestar

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

model example

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cynosure