1400-1500Frenchluminaire ‘lamp’, from Latinluminaria ‘window’, from lumen; ➔ LUMINOUS
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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Guests included show business luminaries such as Bob Hope.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Among the guests are many luminaries of Parisian society who might balk at that sort of food.
Further along, a pool of bilious gas pricked by glittering young luminaries.
No less a luminary than Wilhelm Furtwangler conducted the premiere.
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.
someone who is very famous or highly respected for their skill at doing something or their knowledge of a particular subject: luminaries of Parisian society