Definitions for lodestar

lodestar lode·star

Spelling: [lohd-stahr]
IPA: /ˈloʊdˌstɑr/

Lodestar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 556 anagrams from letters in lodestar (adelorst).

Definitions for lodestar

noun

  1. a star that shows the way.
  2. Polaris.
  3. something that serves as a guide or on which the attention is fixed.

Origin of lodestar

First recorded in 1325-75, lodestar is from the Middle English word loode sterre. See lode, star

Examples for lodestar

Jonson correctly describes the lodestar, or loadstar, as it is less properly called, as "the leading or guiding star."

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

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

Since I have known you, you have been the lodestar of my existence, the fountain of my inspiration.

He's going to make your fortune on Thursday—good old lodestar, some of 'em'll feel the draught, you bet.

When he looked from a crest of the waves his lodestar was gone; a black cloud had hidden the turret lamp.

His example is the lodestar of our aspirations, and we fain would be his disciples.

You hold me as the lodestar holds the iron: I cannot but cling to you.

And find what lodestar there draws Chartrien From constancy?

I saw little, heard little, yet was faintly conscious that I was the lodestar of all glances and exulting in my triumph.

Word Value for lodestar
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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