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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lee-ding
Phonetic Transcription : ˈli dɪŋ



Définition of leading light

  • noun inspirational celebrity
Example sentences :
  • 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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