north star
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
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The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which for Earth has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.
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A locality in the Gwydir council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
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An unincorporated community in Yuba County, California, formerly North Star House.
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A village in Darke County, Ohio.
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Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: pole star, polar star"
- "The ships would leave Europe in April, when there was a good easterly wind. Trans-Atlantic mariners wanted the wind dead on the stern, so they could run with it, sticking to the same latitude—a method called easting and westing. Columbus, Cabot, and many others had done this. Until the eighteenth century, there was no reliable way to measure longitude, which helps explain why so many could make landfalls from the Bahamas to Newfoundland and believe they were near Asia. Latitude could be fixed by the relationship to the North Star or the sun, one of the few things known in the sixteenth century about celestial navigation. Westing ships out of Bristol reached the Labrador coast and dropped down to Newfoundland. Bretons went straight to the Grand Bank and St. John's."
- "For Wilson, his religion served as guiding principle, not a series of explicit religious dictates governing politics: “Wilson's principles, derived from his religious faith, were his North Star, which pointed him in a general direction."
- "His North Star was Rome, his compass was the Holy Office, “My polar star is Rome; my compass is the Holy Office.”"
- "Believing that he would return to life when he was ready, she became his North Star."
- "The wise voice in my head agreed with her and told me something I'd never forget: Stop going against yourself. Be you. All the way. And watch life work for you. This voice, my intuition, has become my North Star in life."