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
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
Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness,...74:
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor.
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
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