a guiding principle, a lodestar (guiding tenet or principle)
çekim: çoğul ledstjärnor · tamlayan ledstjärnas
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish ledhestiärna. Equivalent to led + stjärna, but now intuitively leda (“lead”) + stjärna (“star”). Cognate with English lodestar, Danish ledestjerne, Dutch leidster.
North Star (current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which has been Polaris for the last 1500 years) · Polaris (α Ursae Minoris)
köken: Literally, “Polar Star”. Coined by Jan Śniadecki.
guiding star, pole star, lodestar, cynosure (guiding tenet, that which serves to guide or direct) · the Mercedes-Benz logo, often used as a hood ornament