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US
/ˈsaɪnɔˌsɝ/
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NOUN
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something that strongly attracts attention and admiration
if he was the cynosure of all eyes he didn't notice -
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