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luminaries

noun as in very important person

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The lyrical declamation has inspired luminaries ranging from Kurt Vonnegut to Robert Frost.

I spent a surreal evening watching all 85 episodes and gathered the best of the worst big ideas from the firearm luminaries.

On Friday evening, a crowd of Hollywood luminaries gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Spike Lee classic.

At 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize with her swirling, mesmerizing epic The Luminaries.

The brightest luminaries are waking up to painful hangovers, and, we imagine, crippling self-doubt.

As this adulation advanced into an established worship, the compliment was reversed by calling planets or luminaries after heroes.

New dramatic luminaries shot into his sphere, some of them too wildly to suit his Victorian tastes.

The ancient times seemed to have come again, when these pictures were approached with genuflexions, luminaries, and incense.

The sun, the moon and all the luminaries with the planets resort to this river, alternately by day and by night.

Both these luminaries seem larger at the horizon than they are at the zenith.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to luminaries, such as: dignitary, celebrity, notable, personage, somebody, and name.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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