(n.) A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
(n.) Same as Loadstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The truly odd thing, though, is that although the Sex and the City TV series ended in 2004, the same year the second Bridget Jones movie came out, both are still used as cultural lodestones in our discussion of women and sex: they came up again and again among the twentysomething women I spoke to online.
(2) The water bubbled as if it was boiling, and afterwards the bottom of the pool was stained with a shape Angie describes as “a beast of the underworld; it reminded me of those twisted, tormented gargoyles screaming silently from the spires of medieval cathedrals.” It’s no wonder that Bowie made his escape – to Berlin, where he made the famous trilogy of albums which are the lodestone of his creativity.