north-starとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 north sterre, norþ sterre, equivalent to north +‎ star.

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固有名詞

North Star

1. (astronomy) The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which for Earth has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.

   Synonyms: Pole Star, Lode Star

   Near-synonyms: pole star, polar star

   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN:

     The ships would leave Europe in April, when there was a good easterly wind. Trans-Atlantic mariners wanted the wind dead on the stern, so they could run with it, sticking to the same latitude—a method called easting and westing. Columbus, Cabot, and many others had done this. Until the eighteenth century, there was no reliable way to measure longitude, which helps explain why so many could make landfalls from the Bahamas to Newfoundland and believe they were near Asia. Latitude could be fixed by the relationship to the North Star or the sun, one of the few things known in the sixteenth century about celestial navigation. Westing ships out of Bristol reached the Labrador coast and dropped down to Newfoundland. Bretons went straight to the Grand Bank and St. John's.

2. A locality in the Gwydir council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
3. A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
4. An unincorporated community in Yuba County, California, formerly North Star House.
5. A census-designated place in New Castle County, Delaware.
6. An unincorporated community in Nicollet County, Minnesota.
7. A village in Darke County, Ohio.
8. An unincorporated community in Portage County, Wisconsin.
9. A number of townships in the United States, listed under North Star Township.
10. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

派生語

• Fairbanks North Star Borough

名詞

North Star (plural North Stars)

1. (figurative) An aim or a goal, a dependable guiding light in a quickly changing world.

   Alternative form: north star

   • 2012, Darrin Grinder, Steve Shaw, The Presidents & Their Faith:

     For Wilson, his religion served as guiding principle, not a series of explicit religious dictates governing politics: “Wilson's principles, derived from his religious faith, were his North Star, which pointed him in a general direction.

   • 2018, Frank M. Guttman, Honoré Beaugrand: a Traditional “Rouge”?:

     His North Star was Rome, his compass was the Holy Office, “My polar star is Rome; my compass is the Holy Office.”

   • 2019, Karen A. McClintock, When Trauma Wounds: Pathways to Healing and Hope, page 155:

     Believing that he would return to life when he was ready, she became his North Star.

   • 2021, Ashley Stahl, You Turn, page 272:

     The wise voice in my head agreed with her and told me something I'd never forget: Stop going against yourself. Be you. All the way. And watch life work for you. This voice, my intuition, has become my North Star in life.

派生語

• NSM

Further reading

• Polaris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia