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Pole star

noun

The brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it. Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, polestar.

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... dozed and dreamed—dreamed of the vulgar world beyond the wall—for now it seemed to his pampered soul that the pole star of an earthly cat's ...

— A Night Out • Edward Peple

... is real, and they revolve round one another. In some cases the period may extend to thousands of years; for the distance which separates them is enormous, and, even when with a powerful telescope it is indicated only by a narrow dark line, amounts to hundreds of millions of miles. The Pole Star itself is double. Andromeda is triple, with perhaps a fourth dark and therefore invisible companion. These dark bodies have a special interest, since it is impossible not to ask ourselves whether some at any rate of them may not be inhabited. In [Greek: epsilon] ...

— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock

... which compose it. Of these the two marked a and b, at the head of the Bear, are generally called the "pointers." They are of special use, because they serve to guide the eye to that most important star in the whole sky, known as the "pole star." ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

Words linked to "Pole star" : Polaris, variable, lodestar, Little Dipper, variable star, North Star, loadstar, dipper, polestar, Ursa Minor, Little Bear