northern cross

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   a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus

   Broaderbunch

   Part ofCygnus

Questions about northern cross

What does northern cross mean?

northern cross means "a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus".

Is northern cross a common word?

northern cross is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.