1. The brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
   - Polaris, North Star, pole star, polestar

Derived forms: polar stars

Type of: loadstar, lodestar, variable, variable star

Part of: Dipper, Little Bear, Little Dipper, Ursa Minor

Encyclopedia: Polar star

• substantiation
• substantiative
• substantival
• substantive
• fullback
• fuller
• fuller's earth
• fuller's teasel
• fullerene
• fullness
• fully
• fully fashioned
• fully fledged
• fully grown
• fulmar
• fulmar petrel
• Fulmarus
• Fulmarus glacialis
• fulminant
• fulminate
• fulminate of mercury
• fulminating mercury
• fulmination
• fulminic acid
• fulness