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
And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond.
From Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Such is the daystar of the word of truth and faithfulness, that hath dawned above the horizon of the pen of the Lord of all names.
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream of divine mystery, and behold from the dayspring of divine utterance the unveiled splendor of the daystar of wisdom.
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
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