Lodestar

Quick meaning: Lodestar is a noun meaning A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.

Meaning

A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A guiding tenet or principle.
2. (law) A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.

Example Sentences

Many, though not all, of the objections to lodestars seem to us to be overstated.

We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent—“Utopia.”

Tho when her ways he could no more descry, But to and fro at disaventure strayd; Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd

Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.

Word Forms

• lodestars
• lode starre

Synonyms for lodestar

Depending on context, synonyms include cynosure, loadstar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loadstar, beacon, footnote, reference, polestar, cynosure.

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