Events
Synonyms for luminary
The synonym for luminary recorded in this bank is celebrity, in the sense "a person prominent in a field, especially one lending prestige to an event". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for luminary
- celebritynoun, in the sense "a person prominent in a field, especially one lending prestige to an event"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for luminary.
a person prominent in a field, especially one lending prestige to an event
A literary luminary attended the book festival's opening night to sign copies of her latest novel.
The true synonym
celebrity
Same sentence, swapped: A literary celebrity attended the book festival's opening night to sign copies of her latest novel.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- steward
- chaperone
- adjudicator
Where luminary turns up in the game
luminary is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play luminary
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so luminary reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from events at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. luminary carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.