Usually means: Guiding star for celestial navigation.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word North Star:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. North Star, North Star, the North Star, the north star: Merriam-Webster
  2. North Star: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. North Star: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. North Star, the North Star: Collins English Dictionary
  5. North Star: Vocabulary.com
  6. North Star: Wordnik
  7. the North Star, the North star: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. North Star: Wiktionary
  9. North Star: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. North Star: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. North Star: Dictionary.com
  12. North Star (Amtrak train), North Star (Curved Air album), North Star (TV series), North Star (anti-slavery newspaper), North Star (broad gauge locomotive), North Star (disambiguation), North Star (newspaper), North Star (organization), North Star, North star, The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper), The North Star: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. North star: Rhymezone
  14. north star: FreeDictionary.org
  15. north star: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. North Star: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. North Star: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. North Star: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. North Star: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. NORTH STAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. north star: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See north_stars as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (North star)

noun:  (astronomy) The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.
noun:  A village in New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Yuba County, California, formerly North Star House.
noun:  A census-designated place in New Castle County, Delaware.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Nicollet County, Minnesota.
noun:  A village in Darke County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Portage County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under North Star Township.
noun:  A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
noun:  (figurative) An aim or a goal, a dependable guiding light in a quickly changing world.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of North Star (“guiding light”) [(astronomy) The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.]

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