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luminary | American Dictionary

luminary
noun[ C ]
us/ˈlu·məˌner·i/
a person who is famous and important in a particular area of activity:
The speaker is a luminary in the field of cancer research.

Examples of luminary

luminary
Such elaborate ceremonies were not restricted to the highest civic luminaries alone.
Therefore, accompanied by their spouses and other ethically challenged luminaries, they settled in a beautiful international site and decided to rewrite their document.
This monograph is a compilation of papers presented at a meeting on hysteria, with most of the contributors being known luminaries in the field.
Traditional social groups, keen to entertain lesser visiting luminaries, were politely indifferent towards the eminent physicist.
Similarly, history was, until the 19th century, primarily an account of the actions of kings, statesmen, generals and other luminaries.
The luminary is a thing that is separate from the firmament and it moves in an orbit around the firmament.
Precedents for the integration of technical and ethical preoccupations could in fact be found in the remarks of the luminaries themselves.
Most of the copy, however, said nothing about these machines; instead, there were some business letters from companies headed by certain literary luminaries.
Close behind these luminaries is an array of lesser known but important figures.
It seems likely, however, that she also wished to advertise her status as a luminary of civil society.
It explains, too, the marked tendency of towns to turn to judges and other legal luminaries when seeking men to serve as their mayors.
This accords with the view that the luminaries are that which moves and that the orb is that which is fixed.
During the 1980s and 1990s many luminaries in social anthropology became obsessed with subjectivity.
He was also personally acquainted with a host of intellectual luminaries.
If one were to take these interviews as a guide for how to follow in these luminaries' footsteps, the book presents almost as many paths as it does interviews.
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