cynosure
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Is cynosure a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (usually capitalized) Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.capitalizedusually
2. (figuratively) That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star.Examples: "let faith be your cynosure to walk by"figuratively
3. (figuratively) Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration.Examples: "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."figuratively
Definition source: Wiktionary