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luminaries

/ˈluməˌnɛɹiz/

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What does luminaries mean?

noun

  1. 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.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242
The greater luminaries shone each more clearly than a winter’s moon.
Robert Louis StevensonThe Silverado SquattersProject Gutenberg ebook #516
More book examples (3)
After the “Punch” school there are other lesser luminaries.
Andrew LangThe LibraryProject Gutenberg ebook #2018
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.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
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.
Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #829