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Meanings of fixed star in English

Russian
неподвижные звезды
Portuguese
estrela fixa
Spanish
estrellas fijas
Catalan
estreles fixes

Astronomical bodies that appear not to move relative to each other in the night sky.

неподвижные звезды

Any star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.

Usage of fixed star in English
1
He called Mr Pitt a meteor; Sir Robert Walpole a fixed star.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
2
The one point of repose was that shining fixed star of marriage.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
3
The nearest fixed star with an available planet is eight-hundred-fifty light-years away.
The Wandering Earth
4
There is only one fixed star in the midsts of our wandering.
She
5
What can there be to make us shudder in a fixed star?
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
6
Above the wrangle and clamour of the passions she is a fixed star.
The Sentimentalists
7
A globe stretching to the furthest fixed star would very soon be covered.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
8
And through the convalescing days Cameron had his place, like a fixed star.
The Shield of Silence
9
Here's another chance for me to become a fixed star-butas usual-oh ,well
The Book of the Damned
10
He shone as a fixed star, with his own lustre.
The Butterfly House
11
Only Susan's glance remained on Courant, unfaltering as the beam of a fixed star.
The Emigrant Trail
12
Did you ever make the acquaintance of a fixed star?
Democracy, an American novel
13
They have no certain harbour in view, nor direct their course by any fixed star.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
14
Despite his detractors and their ethical objections, the provost's moral compass was a fixed star.
Inferno
15
And then, as swift as light from a fixed star, the answer came to me.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
16
The observer who works on the front instrument keeps a cross hair on a fixed star.
Giants on the Earth
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Translations for fixed star
Portuguese
estrela fixa
Fixed star through the time
Fixed star across language varieties
United Kingdom
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