Usually means: North Star, constant celestial guide.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. polaris: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Polaris, Polaris: Merriam-Webster
  3. Polaris: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Polaris: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Polaris: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Polaris: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polaris, polaris: Wordnik
  8. Polaris: Wiktionary
  9. Polaris: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Polaris: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Polaris: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Polaris: Dictionary.com
  13. Polaris: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. POLARIS (seismology), Polaris (American band), Polaris (Australian band), Polaris (Marvel Comics), Polaris (Stratovarius album), Polaris (Tesseract album), Polaris (UK nuclear programme), Polaris (arcade game), Polaris (band), Polaris (comics), Polaris (composition), Polaris (convention), Polaris (disambiguation), Polaris (film), Polaris (icebreaker), Polaris (missile), Polaris (novel), Polaris (poker bot), Polaris (short story), Polaris (song), Polaris (star), Polaris (train), Polaris (video game), Polaris: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Polaris: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. polaris: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Polaris: Rhymezone
  18. Polaris: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. polaris: FreeDictionary.org
  20. polaris: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Polaris: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Polaris: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Polaris: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. POLARIS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buddhism Glossary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Polaris: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. POLARIS: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polaris: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Polaris: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Polaris)

noun:  (astronomy) α Ursae Minoris, a trinary star in the constellation Ursa Minor located near the north celestial pole for the last 1500 years.
noun:  A type of U.S. ballistic missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and designed to be launched from a submarine.

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