Tho when her ways he could no more descry, But to and fro at disaventure strayd; Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd
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Lodestar
//ˈləʊd.stɑː(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "lodestar" (77 found)
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34 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- пътеводна звезда noun (star used as navigation reference)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 北極星 /北极星 noun (star used as navigation reference)
- 北辰 noun (star used as navigation reference)
- 指導原理 /指导原理 noun (guiding tenet)
- 指示方向之星 noun (star used as navigation reference)
Danish
2 entries- ledestjerne noun (star used as navigation reference)
- ledestjerne noun (guiding tenet)
Dutch
3 entries- leidster noun (star used as navigation reference)
- leidster noun (guiding tenet)
- poolster noun (star used as navigation reference)
Finnish
2 entries- johtotähti noun (star used as navigation reference)
- johtotähti noun (guiding tenet)
French
1 entries- étoile polaire noun (star used as navigation reference)
German
2 entries- Leitstern noun (star used as navigation reference)
- Leitstern noun (guiding tenet)
Japanese
3 entries- ポラリス noun (star used as navigation reference)
- 北極星 noun (star used as navigation reference)
- 指導原理 noun (guiding tenet)
Norwegian
2 entries- ledestjerne noun (star used as navigation reference)
- ledestjerne noun (guiding tenet)
Persian
1 entries- ستاره قطبی noun (star used as navigation reference)
Polish
3 entries- gwiazda polarna noun (star used as navigation reference)
- gwiazda przewodnia noun (star used as navigation reference)
- gwiazda przewodnia noun (guiding tenet)
Portuguese
1 entries- estrela guia noun (guiding tenet)
Romanian
1 entries- stea călăuzitoare noun (guiding tenet)
Russian
2 entries- путево́дная звезда́ noun (star used as navigation reference)
- путево́дная звезда́ noun (guiding tenet)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zv(ij)ezda vodilja noun (star used as navigation reference)
- zv(ij)ezda vodilja noun (guiding tenet)
Swedish
2 entries- ledstjärna noun (star used as navigation reference)
- ledstjärna noun (guiding tenet)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sao bắc cực noun (star used as navigation reference)
- 𣋀北極 noun (star used as navigation reference)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
He was no wavering mariner; he had taken his course from a single lodestar, by which he had steered from the first day he had seen it in his heavens — the lodestar that had shone for him and would always shine.
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Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
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May we not define its true aim to be that of awakening in the heart those feelings towards moral and religious objects, which like attractions drawing towards the great lodestars of existence, shall ever keep the life right and stedfast?
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