daystar
Americannoun
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a morning star.
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the sun.
noun
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a poetic word for the sun
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another word for the morning star
Etymology
Origin of daystar
before 1000; Middle English daysterre, Old English dægsteorra. See day, star
Example Sentences
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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation.
From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Mary Jane Holmes
Shouldst thou reflect upon that which We have disclosed unto thee, the daystar of guidance would shine resplendent before thee in this everlasting morn, and thou wouldst be numbered therein with the pious.
From Gems of Divine Mysteries by Bahá'u'lláh
“The day is approaching,” He similarly has written, “when the faithful will behold the daystar of justice shining in its full splendor from the dayspring of glory.”
From The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi
Now from the shuttered east a silvery bar Shines through the mist, and shows the mild daystar.
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
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