Definitions for luminaries

luminaries lu·mi·nar·y

Spelling: [loo-muh-ner-ee]
IPA: /ˈlu məˌnɛr i/

Luminaries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 884 anagrams from letters in luminaries (aeiilmnrsu).

Definitions for luminaries

noun

  1. a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
  2. a body, object, etc., that gives light.
  3. a person who has attained eminence in his or her field or is an inspiration to others:

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characterized by light.

Origin of luminaries

1400-50; late Middle English luminarye Medieval Latin lūmināria lamp. See luminaria

Examples for luminaries

In no other country is the wanderer brought so close, as it were, to the luminaries of night.

From American presidents to movie stars and journalists, luminaries around the world honor the father of modern South Africa.

The smartest of the overwhelmingly male and European luminaries they ranked was John Stuart Mill, with an estimated IQ of 190.

Signed by 74 luminaries of widely diverse political points of view, it called for a "new conversation about marriage."

Yet these men were luminaries for the day that brought them forth.

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

The same if either of the luminaries be exactly on the equinoxes.

But gradually Frost was able to lure for interviews senior politicians and luminaries from all sides of public life.

He there instructed Carlone and Strozzi, two luminaries of this school.

But beside it the two luminaries of his own world were as pygmies.

Word Value for luminaries
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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