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lodestar

/lohd-stahr/US // ˈloʊdˌstɑr //UK // (ˈləʊdˌstɑː) //

宿命,宿主,宿命论,宿舍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a star that shows the way.
    • : Polaris.
    • : something that serves as a guide or on which the attention is fixed.

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Examples

  • Citizenship and dignity—these are the lodestars of civil rights legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race or disability or other human difference.

  • Invoking Wilberforce allows conservatives like DeMint to pretend that he, not Calhoun, is their moral lodestar and inspiration.

  • Every man must have a woman as a lodestar; you are to be that to me.

  • "Lodestar" really was a good word for the attraction, I thought, and I would repeat it to the chauffeur.

  • The lodestar of his hopes is liberty, his main end the establishment of "a free commonwealth."

  • She was immediately spellbound by Franz's music, and he became the lodestar of her dreams.

  • What do they say up in the carbonate camp about the Lodestar business?