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Pole star

noun

The brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it. Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, polestar.

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"Pole star" Quotes from Famous Books

... alliances, from these veiled slaveries! Mind is no one's servitor. It is we who are the servitors of mind. We have no other master. We exist to bear its light, to defend its light, to rally round it all the strayed sheep of mankind. Our role, our duty, is to be a centre of stability, to point out the pole star, amid the whirlwind of passions in the night. Among these passions of pride and mutual destruction, we make no choice; we reject them all. Truth only do we honour; truth that is free, frontierless, limitless; truth that knows nought of the prejudices of race or caste. Not that we lack interest in ...

— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland

... northern hemisphere of Mars the polar star is a small one marked on our maps in the constellation of Cepheus, and it is almost on the boundary between that constellation and Cygnus. The pole star lies nearly in a line joining the brighter stars ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

Words linked to "Pole star" : polar star, variable star, dipper, polestar, lodestar, Little Dipper, Little Bear, variable, Ursa Minor, loadstar