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/ˈsɪnəzjʊə/ · noun
Alternative letter-case form of Cynosure: Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators..
let faith be your cynosure to walk by
Meanwhile the fair young Queen, in her halls of state, walks like a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it.
With anglophobia driving out anglophilia, the king – as during the Seven Years War – came to represent the very cynosure of patriotic zeal.
Use cynosure when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cynosure means Alternative letter-case form of Cynosure: Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
let faith be your cynosure to walk by
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