--- title: "How to pronounce \"luminar\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"luminar\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/We09c5j6wkU/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/luminar" --- # How to pronounce "luminar" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/lʌmɪnær/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **lu·mi·nar** - **Parts of Speech**: adjective - **ADJECTIVE**: Relating to light - *Example*: "Those who are familiar with the laws of interference, of the polarization of light, &c, know, that, according to the wave theory, the luminar vibrations are not longitudinal, like the vibrations of sound […]" - **ADJECTIVE**: Relating to lumens ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "luminar" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "And my contention is that there are not just two, but five styles. "Luminaries" lead with ideas primarily. They see the world through constructs of thinking thoughts long-term. "Entrepreneurs" are driven by opportunities. And "Managers" are driven by policies, procedures, systems, structure." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We09c5j6wkU&t=237s) ### Example 2 > "Luminaries have long-term thinking. Think about long-term consequences." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We09c5j6wkU&t=641s) ### Example 3 > "luminaries like kodaks George Eastman and mgm's Irving thalberg thought the talkies were a passing fad of Bing" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXgr0uJMi-A&t=35s) ### Example 4 > "due to be out this September the musicians backing her up at the Bon jazz festival are also among the finest they've played with the luminary likes of artha Franklin and Chaka k there are quite a few women who are singing jazz there aren't as many of us" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei0eNTLGkM8&t=229s) ### Example 5 > "leading contemporary artists have their studios. Luminaries of the new Leipzig school such as Nao Ra and Matias Vasha come here to paint. Cotton was spun here until the year 2000. Now it's home to 100 studios and a dozen galleries. The most successful gallery owner here is Ghari Lupka. He discovered" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svaK96BCk20&t=75s) ### Example 6 > "British equivalent of Broadway. What I'm trying to say is this is a theater luminary and she is only 11 years old. Please welcome Suki Hillier. Hi everyone. Today I want to talk about imagination and theater. For the past year I've been playing Matilda at the Cambridge Theater in London's West End." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 172:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADHiUWjo6c&t=10362s) ### Example 7 > "to they turn to their broker uh this is the same guy that they went to who found the Blue Heron Farm for them originally and he specializes in finding political luminary spots on Martha's Vineyard so he's worked with the clintons he's also worked with Jordanian royalty and so he's well-versed in the needs of security details so the home that the Obamas will be staying at is on the Southshore it's a preferred destination when you have these kind of security" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oU7hCXtGU&t=71s) ### Example 8 > "lab exploring circadian human health behavior he's just considered a no pun a luminary in the field but there wasn't a study that was in error where they had published in Science magazine that light shown behind the knee could shift circadian rhythms and that paper was retracted um and a lot of people don't know that it was retracted light exposure to the eyes is what's relevant" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 26:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8VM5-CTfw&t=1616s) ### Example 9 > "luminaries of Heaven to be very ancient and to be a relic of a primeval Superstition of the Aryan race there is an ancient pictorial" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 254:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dKUQSDcQA&t=15265s) ### Example 10 > "luminary struggling through the obscurity that clouded its commencement among those who had the Discrimination to appreciate and the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 119:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU9--uA_B7Q&t=7143s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [lumbar](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lumbar), [lum](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lum), [luma](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/luma), [lumacaftor](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lumacaftor), [lumache](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lumache), [lumachel](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lumachel), [lumachellic](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lumachellic), [lumad](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lumad) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "luminar" correctly? 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