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north star
Word definitions for north star in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Pole Star, Polaris," Middle English norþe sterre (late 14c.); cognates: Middle Dutch noirdstern , German nordstern .
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 8277 Housing Units (2000): 2651 Land area (2000): 6.843462 sq. miles (17.724485 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.843462 sq. miles (17.724485 sq. km) FIPS code: 52490 Located within: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
For other newspapers named North Star, see North Star (disambiguation)#Newspapers North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass . The paper commenced ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
North \North\, a. Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north. North following . See Following , a., 2. North pole , that point ...
Usage examples of north star.
They say he's bust if North Star doesn't hit it with the next hole.
All we have to do is take this barge up to thirty thousand feet, aim the nose directly at Polaris, also called the North Star, point the starboard wing at the outermost point of Saturn's ring - and press the firing button!
A question of honor was answered with as much clarity as the North Star.
Alongside Greenland's North Star Bay, thick with pack ice, the RB-47 taxied up to a 10,000-foot runway.
But not many of these were gathered, on this night, in the North Star Coffee Lounge.
Ships had coasted the shores of Africa, but it was known that crossing the equator and thus losing sight of the North Star meant boiling death, or falling off the edge of the world, or both.