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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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Working through that backlog would take weeks even after the waterway is safe to pass, said Saleem Khan, chief data and analytics officer at maritime-intelligence firm Pole Star Global.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

The name Polaris is taken from the Pole Star, used for navigation by slaves escaping northwards in the US in the 19th Century.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2019

This week the Finsler comet is almost opposite the Pole Star in its path across the northern sky toward the Big Dipper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pole Star was reefing its own sails and slowing, guiding itself with the minimum acceleration so that it could come up beside them and board.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Nailer had told her what had happened on Pole Star, and was surprised to find himself crying, and then he had simply stopped.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022

“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

Combining lightning-quick, two-handed picking techniques with hammer-ons, pull-offs, complex harmonics and an array of innovative devices he patented, the guitarist became a pole star for generations of musicians.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2020

It is called Polaris, the pole star, and has the distinction of being the star that moves the least amount as the northern sky turns each day.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

The confusion of Columbus was very like his confounding an old world with a new, inasmuch as he supposed it was the pole star and not the needle which was shifting.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by George Iles