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cynosure

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪnəzjʊə/Part of speech nounSorted cenorsuyStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. something that strongly attracts attention and admiration

Word origin

From Middle French Cynosure (“Ursa Minor; Polaris”), from Latin Cynosūra (“Ursa Minor”), from Ancient Greek Κυνόσουρα (Kunósoura, “Ursa Minor”, literally “dog’s tail”), from κυνός (kunós, “dog's”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

Used in a sentence

  • let faith be your cynosure to walk by
  • Towers, and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
  • 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.

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