guiding light

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   a celebrity who is an inspiration to others

   “he was host to a large gathering of luminaries”

   Synonymsluminaryleading lightnotablenotability

   Broadercelebrity

Questions about guiding light

What does guiding light mean?

guiding light means "a celebrity who is an inspiration to others".

What is another word for guiding light?

Close synonyms include luminary, leading light, notable, notability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guiding light a common word?

guiding light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.