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luminary

\LOO-muh-nair-ee\ , noun:
1.Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.
2.A person of eminence or brilliant achievement.
名词 n.
1.发光体
2.发光(或反射光的)天体
3.杰出人物;才智出众的人

Quotes:
There's something comforting in those occasional lapses when a luminary lurches and trips over the humble stone his powerful torch somehow failed to reveal.
~Brad Leithauser, "You Haven't Heard the Last of This", New York Times, August 30, 1998
. . .such jazz luminaries as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong, and Earl Hines.
~Daniel Mark Epstein, Nat King Cole

Origin:
Luminary derives from Latin luminare, "a window," from lumin-, lumen, "light."