cynosures
Meaning of cynosures
- a person or thing that is the centre of attention or admiration.
Kirk was the cynosure of all eyes
late 16th century: from French, or from Latin cynosura, from Greek kunosoura ‘dog's tail’ (also ‘Ursa Minor’), from kuōn, kun- ‘dog’ + oura ‘tail’. The term originally denoted the constellation Ursa Minor, or the pole star which it contains, long used as a guide by navigators.
Information about cynosures
- It is a name.
- The singular form of cynosures is: cynosure.
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Hyphenation of cynosures
cyno-sures
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- cynosures is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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