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[ US /ˈsaɪnɔˌsɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. something that strongly attracts attention and admiration
    if he was the cynosure of all eyes he didn't notice
  2. something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners)
    let faith be your cynosure to walk by

How To Use cynosure In A Sentence

  • Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
  • let faith be your cynosure to walk by
  • Bronze idol of Ganapathi, with finely proportioned torsos and exquisitely designed limbs is a cynosure of all eyes.
  • By the early 17th century, "cynosure" was also being used figuratively for anything or anyone that, like the North Star, was the focus of attention or observation. Latest Articles
  • His brisk What Happens Next recounts the history of American screenwriting from the silents to 2005, but its cynosure is the studio era, a period he writes about with romanticism and passion. Toiling in the Dream Factory
  • Let faith be your cynosure to walk by.
  • The novel air cooler that runs on solar power instead of electricity was the cynosure of all eyes.
  • How proudly she had strutted around that day, the cynosure of all eyes.
  • Naturally, the film personalities queuing up with their tickets before boarding the wide-bodied jet liner were the cynosure of all eyes.
  • Amid the lighter, pastel colors, she was a dramatic highlight; as intended, she was the cynosure of all eyes. ON A WICKED DAWN
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