Definitions for lodestone

lodestone lode·stone

Spelling: [lohd-stohn]
IPA: /ˈloʊdˌstoʊn/

Lodestone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in lodestone (deelnoost).

Definitions for lodestone

noun

  1. a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
  2. a piece of this serving as a magnet.
  3. something that attracts strongly.

Origin of lodestone

1505-15; lode (in obsolete sense “way, course”) + stone

Examples for lodestone

Beyond a peradventure Frances was the lodestone that attracted him.

It was the lodestone which had served to draw this woman once more into the danger zone.

How early the compass, or lodestone, was known in the North is uncertain.

These properties of amber and lodestone appear to have been widely known.

But in Jacquelin Ambler's house was the lodestone which drew him.

That thought became his lodestone, and he left all his other work to accomplish it.

Beale Street drew them, it has been said, “like a lodestone.”

This is the lodestone that has always attracted him hither—he smelt his gold.

It was my lodestone, my centering point, my story as a journalist covering Germany and the East Bloc.

His glance went to the portrait, and his feet followed, as to a lodestone.

Word Value for lodestone
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