lodestar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈləʊd.stɑː(ɹ)/    美 /ˈloʊd.stɑɹ/|/ˈləʉd.staː(ɹ)/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.
    — Tho when her ways he could no more descry, But to and fro at disaventure strayd; Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd
  2. A guiding tenet or principle. figuratively
    — Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
  3. A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.
    — Many, though not all, of the objections to lodestars seem to us to be overstated.

词形变化

lodestars plural lode starre alternative loadstar alternative

词汇关系

近义词
cynosure guiding star
相关词
lodestone

词源

From Middle English lode (“journey, course”) + star, where lode is an archaic noun from the verb lithe (“to go, journey”), related to lead. Other Middle English spellings include: 14th century loode sterre, lood-sterre, lade-sterne; and 15th century lode sterre. Cognate with Old Norse leiðarstjarna, Dutch leidster, German Leitstern, Danish ledestjerne, Swedish ledstjärna.
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