Meaning of Cynosure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Cynosure: Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.
   alt-of
3. That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star.
   figuratively
4. Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“let faith be your cynosure to walk by”

“Meanwhile the fair young Queen, in her halls of state, walks like a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it.”

“With anglophobia driving out anglophilia, the king – as during the Seven Years War – came to represent the very cynosure of patriotic zeal.”

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