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luminaries
/ˈluməˌnɛɹiz/
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What does luminaries mean?
noun
- plural of luminary
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈluməˌnɛɹiz/
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For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world.
The greater luminaries shone each more clearly than a winter’s moon.
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After the “Punch” school there are other lesser luminaries.
When the inspection was over and the books checked, the staff was summoned to the principal's drawing room, to receive the parting admonitions of the two luminaries.
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.