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View synonyms for leading light
leading light
[ lee-ding ]
noun
- an important or influential person:
a leading light of the community.
leading light
/ ˈliːdɪŋ /
noun
- an important or outstanding person, esp in an organization or cause
- nautical a less common term for range light
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leading light1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Idioms and Phrases
An important or influential individual, as in Jim was a leading light in his community . This expression, alluding to moral guidance, dates from about 1870, but terms such as a shining light have been used for an outstanding person since the first half of the 1500s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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