Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The morning star. See star.
  • noun The sun, as the orb of day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The morning star; the star which ushers in the day; -- usually the planet Venus, when seen before and just after sunrise.
  • noun Poetic The sun, as the orb of day.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky

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Examples

  • Yvonne Aburrow 2007, The day-star of approaching morn: The relationship between the Unitarians and the Brahmo Samaj

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Yvonne Aburrow 2007, The day-star of approaching morn: The relationship between the Unitarians and the Brahmo Samaj

    Pagan tendencies in Unitarianism 2009

  • August 25, 2009 at 9:07 am which, bean transmalated: How art thou flollin from heaven, Ohai, day-star , sunbeam of the morning! how art thou rolling round on to the ground, that didst lay LOL the nations!

    Upon leaving the basement for the first time, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • She regarded India as 'pagan', 'wandering children', and referred to 'India's darkened shore' and Indian women 'trembling midst the dismal night of pagan horrors' and contrasted this with Rammohun's vision of the 'day-star of approaching morn' – a Unitarianism that would persuade India to accept Christ's message Medhurst, 1992: 9-13.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • The day-star of approaching morn: The relationship between the Unitarians and the Brahmo Samajby Yvonne Aburrow

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • The day-star of approaching morn: The relationship between the Unitarians and the Brahmo Samajby Yvonne Aburrow

    The Rammohun Roy connection 2008

  • She regarded India as 'pagan', 'wandering children', and referred to 'India's darkened shore' and Indian women 'trembling midst the dismal night of pagan horrors' and contrasted this with Rammohun's vision of the 'day-star of approaching morn' – a Unitarianism that would persuade India to accept Christ's message Medhurst, 1992: 9-13.

    The Rammohun Roy connection 2008

  • We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.

    2 Peter 1. 1999

  • And we live in borrowed sunshine when the day-star is withdrawn.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) 1989

  • Sudden I hated day-star never changing And suns at night held all to one round wheel.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

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