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cynosure🔊

Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.

(figurative) That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star.

(figurative) Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration.

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With anglophobia driving out anglophilia, the king – as during the Seven Years War – came to represent the very cynosure of patriotic zeal.
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