Synonyms for leading light
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lee-ding |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈli dɪŋ |
Définition of leading light
- noun inspirational celebrity
- Since Guerrita, not a single matador of leading light has arisen.
- Extract from : « Unexplored Spain » by Abel Chapman
- Then the leading light in the Tenth Baptist Church turned to the remorse-stricken man again.
- Extract from : « Bats in the Wall » by P. T. Raymond
- Phil May was a leading light of the society, and the grimy and bedaubed plaster laughed with his conceits at every turn.
- Extract from : « Thirty Years in Australia » by Ada Cambridge
- The Leading Light now answered better to her helm, and, heading up a point, reached well into the bay.
- Extract from : « Labrador Days » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
- Though every moment he was expecting the Leading Light to make her last long dive, his courage never for a second deserted him.
- Extract from : « Labrador Days » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
- She was the leading light and was always ready and willing to assist in any good work.
- Extract from : « Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences » by Nebraska Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- This recalls to my mind a story which Gye once told me about a leading light of this Society who was on a visit to Egypt.
- Extract from : « With the Zionists in Gallipoli » by John Henry Patterson
- McColl was a most interesting personality, a leading light on matters occult, and a famous recounter of ghost stories.
- Extract from : « Ghosts I Have Seen » by Violet Tweedale
- For a time I stumbled and walked in darkness but the leading light is clearer now.
- Extract from : « Blacksheep! Blacksheep! » by Meredith Nicholson
- One of them, the leading light of the local Nationalist party, is rated at £8.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
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- afterlight
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- at the leading edge
- bandleader
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- in broad daylight
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- jump leads
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- Light of the World
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- misleading
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- moonlight
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- northern-lights
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- northern lightses
- once over lightly
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- out like a light
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- polar lights
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- the bright lights
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- top-flight
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- traveling light
- trip the light fantastic
- turn spotlight on
- twilight
- unblighted
- unenlightened
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- unlighted
- Very lights
- warning light
- warning lights
- yellow light
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