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LUMINARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does luminary mean?
• LUMINARY (noun)
The noun LUMINARY has 1 sense:
1. a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
Familiarity information: LUMINARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A celebrity who is an inspiration to others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
guiding light; leading light; luminary; notability; notable
Context example:
he was host to a large gathering of luminaries
Hypernyms ("luminary" is a kind of...):
celebrity; famous person (a widely known person)
Context examples
The effects of the drug are prolonged when administered extra-luminary, potentially due to absorption in the perivascular fat-pad and subsequent slow release.
(Extraluminal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
They are well enough acquainted with the motions of those two luminaries, and understand the nature of eclipses; and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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