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  Pole Star

  noun

  the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
• pole star
  pole star

  noun

  a guiding principle, rule, standard, etc

Pole Star

¹ British  

noun

1. the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis

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pole star ² British  

noun

1. a guiding principle, rule, standard, etc

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Example Sentences

In the northern sky, on the other side of the Pole star from the Big Dipper, is a prominent, W-shaped constellation named Cassiopeia.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are five constellations you can nearly always see, and these are all near the Pole star.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen

The portion round the North Pole to the left is indicated as "cold beneath the Pole star."

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

The leafless trees, with their decoration of filigree, suggested the North and its peculiar romance—nature trailing away into the mighty white solitudes where the Pole star reigns over fields of ice.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Their chief guide was one which always points towards the North pole, and is therefore called the Pole star.

From The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Sedgwick, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley