"cynosure" meaning in All languages combined

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        "(figuratively) That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star."
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          "sense": "that which serves to guide or direct",
          "word": "johtotähti"
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          "word": "tramontane"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "that which serves to guide or direct",
          "word": "mentor"
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          "sense": "that which serves to guide or direct",
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          "roman": "putevódnaja zvezdá",
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          "text": "This was an occasion, if ever, for Lord Mellifont's tact, which descended on us all like balm. He told us, in his charming, artistic way, his way of bridging over arid intervals... of his own collapse on a momentous occasion, the delivery of an address to a mighty multitude, when, finding he had forgotten his memoranda, he fumbled on the terrible platform, the cynosure of every eye, fumbled vainly in irreproachable pockets for indispensable notes.",
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          "text": "Her culture a rich mixture of Christian and Moorish, Iberian and Roman, her national image so proud that the Spanish patrician was Europe's cynosure of elegance and command, he voyagers outrageously swashbuckling and her experience of the New World unrivalled, […]",
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          "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
          "word": "point de mire"
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          "word": "cible"
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          "word": "foyer"
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          "word": "Anziehungspunkt"
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          "word": "țintă"
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          "roman": "centr vnimánija",
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          "word": "центр внима́ния"
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          "word": "blanco de las miradas"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that which serves to guide or direct",
      "word": "guia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that which serves to guide or direct",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lazarillo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "word": "huomion keskipiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "word": "point de mire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "word": "cible"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "word": "foyer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Anziehungspunkt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Blickfang"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Fokus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "țintă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "centr vnimánija",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "центр внима́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sredotóčije vnimánija",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "средото́чие внима́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "word": "blanco de las miradas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration",
      "word": "foco"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "cynosure"
  ],
  "word": "cynosure"
}