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Leading light   /lˈidɪŋ laɪt/   Listen
Leading light

noun
1.
A celebrity who is an inspiration to others.  Synonyms: guiding light, luminary, notability, notable.





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"Leading light" Quotes from Famous Books



... enough that Patricia didn't like it. She owed her own position as a leading light-opera soprano to the cultivation to its highest possible perfection of a distinctly second-rate voice, to a precise knowledge of its limitations and to a most scrupulous economy in its effects. Inevitably, then, the raw ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster


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