Polestar

Definition: Polestar

Polestar

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "polestar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Polestar

Indication

Beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard.

Crosswords: Polestar

Books

• Babaji: Lahiri Mahasay: The Polestar of Kriya (Biographies Series) (reference)

• Constellations: Twenty Years of Stellar Poetry from Polestar (reference)

• Polestar Family 2003 Calendar (reference)

• Polestar of the Ancients: The Aristotelian Tradition in Classical and English Literary Criticism (reference)

• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Stories [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Polestar (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Polestar Pilates Beginning Pilates Mat (reference)

• Polestar Pilates Intemediate Pilates Allegro Reformer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏نجم القطب. (various references)

Farsi 

موردتوجه (Noteworthy), هادی (Ductile, Guide), راهنما (Adviser, Clue, Conductor, Guidance, Guide, Guideline, Key, Keyword, Landmark, Leader, Lodestar, Pacemaker, Signal, Usher). (various references)

German

Polarstern (polar star). (various references)

Hebrew 

כוכב �"צפון (northstar). (various references)

Pig Latin

olestarpay.(various references)

Russian 

полярная звезда (cynosure, loadstar, lodestar, north star, polaris, pole star). (various references)

Spanish

estrella polar (lodestar, Polaris). (various references)

Turkish

kutupyıldızı (cynosure, guiding star, loadstar, lodestar, north star, pole star). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "polestar": polestars. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Polestar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dolstar, Kolesar, palaestra, Pallistar, pallyster, ploesti, Ploiesti, podesta, Polarstar, Polesia, poleta, polister, polizia, Polstead, Porlezza. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: petrosal.

-1 letter: apostle, esparto, palters, paroles, patrols, pelotas, persalt, petrols, plaster, platers, portals, prolate, proteas, psalter, replots, reposal, seaport, stapler.

-2 letters: alerts, alters, artels, aslope, estral, lapser, laster, lopers, oaters, operas, orates, osteal, ostler, palest, palets, palter, pareos, parles, parole, parols, pastel, paster, pastor, paters, patrol, pearls, pelota, petals, petrol, plater, plates, pleats, polars.

+1 letter: lakeports, pastorale, pectorals, plethoras, polestars, portables, preallots, saprolite, sporulate, temporals.

+2 letters: allotropes, blastopore, doorplates, epistolary, outsparkle, overplants, pastorales, patrollers, peculators, percolates, periosteal, personalty, polarities, polywaters, pyrolysate, saprolites, speculator, sporulated, sporulates.

+3 letters: allopatries, allotropies, antileprosy, blastopores, blastospore, colportages, explicators, grapholects, graptolites, heptachlors, lepromatous, leptospiral, outsparkled, outsparkles, percolators, peristomial, personalist, personality, petrolatums, plasterwork, polysorbate, portabellas, portabellos, pratincoles, prefrontals, profligates, promulgates, propellants, pyrolysates, pyrolyzates, replicators, repopulates, speculators, spheroplast, spirochetal, sporulative, supportable, tetraploids, trampolines.