Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The morning star.
- n. The sun.
Wiktionary
- n. The morning star; the planet Venus.
- n. poetic The Sun.
Etymologies
- From day + star. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Why is it that 99% of the versions drop Lucifer, son of the morning and replace it with "morning star" like the NIV or the "bright morning star" in the CEV or "daystar" in the Amplified Bible, which is one of Jesus 'titles in 2 Peter 1: 19, and in Rev 22: 16.”
“Why should this most great and lofty Cause -- the daystar of the firmament of true civilization and the cause of the glory, the advancement, the well-being and the success of all humanity -- be regarded as impossible of achievement?”
“Salton's glowering daystar rose behind her shoulder, a fire upon the land obliterating shadow and coolth.”
“But when my darling came up to me in the early daylight, fresher than the daystar, and with no one looking; only her bright eyes smiling, and sweet lips quite ready, was it likely I could wait, and think all day about it?”
“As the daystar fled west over the sea, he saw a flare high up on the peak.”
“A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.”
“And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin.”
“When Ehomba finally awoke and ascertained the true position of the fog-obscured daystar, he found himself unsettled in mind.”
“Helium-three was created in the Sun by the fusion processes that made Earth's daystar shine.”
“'Tis honorable that an errant knight go boldly forth however dim the chances, and not alone upon such times as lances gleam high and then are shattered in the fight: for when the golden daystar burns less bright than one pure hope at which his heartbeat dances,”
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