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.
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