loadstar

loadstar [lohd-stahr] Examples noun

1. lodestar.

lodestar or load·star [lohd-stahr] 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 from the Web for loadstar Historical Examples of loadstar

The feather in the hat of Lewis was the loadstar of victory.

The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

In the home she is “loadstone to all hearts, and loadstar to all eyes.”

Character

Samuel Smiles

In the home, she is the “loadstone to all hearts, and loadstar to all eyes.”

The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.

Various

Heart-broken as I am, I should desire to carry away one memory at least of her whose love was the loadstar of my existence.’

Lord Kilgobbin

Charles Lever

She has led me to hope it may, and that hope is the loadstar of my existence; and one with which I will never part.

The Ruined Cities of Zululand

Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley

British Dictionary definitions for loadstar loadstar noun

1. a variant spelling of lodestar

lodestar loadstar noun

1. a star, esp the North Star, used in navigation or astronomy as a point of reference
2. something that serves as a guide or model

Word Origin for lodestar C14: literally, guiding star. See lode Word Origin and History for loadstar lodestar n.

late 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), an old name for the pole star (cf. Old Norse leiðarstjarna) as the star that “leads the way” in navigation; from lode (n.) + star (n.). Figurative use from late 14c.

loadstar in Science lodestar

1. A star, especially Polaris, that is used as a point of reference.