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illuminate
[ih-loo-muh-neyt, ih-loo-muh-nit, -neyt]
verb (used with object)
to supply or brighten with light; light up.
to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
Synonyms: , ,to decorate with lights, as in celebration.
to enlighten, as with knowledge.
to make resplendent or illustrious.
A smile illuminated her face.
to decorate (a manuscript, book, etc.) with colors and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages.
verb (used without object)
to display lights, as in celebration.
to become illuminated.
adjective
Archaic.illuminated.
Obsolete.enlightened.
noun
Archaic.a person who is or affects to be specially enlightened.
illuminate
verb
(tr) to throw light in or into; light up
to illuminate a room
(tr) to make easily understood; clarify
to adorn, decorate, or be decorated with lights
(tr) to decorate (a letter, page, etc) by the application of colours, gold, or silver
(intr) to become lighted up
adjective
archaicmade clear or bright with light; illuminated
noun
a person who has or claims to have special enlightenment
Other Word Forms
- illuminatingly adverb
- preilluminate verb (used with object)
- reilluminate verb
- semi-illuminated adjective
- unilluminated adjective
- ˈܳˌԲٴǰ noun
- ˈܳԲپ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of illuminate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of illuminate1
Example Sentences
And really, what’s to stop the em dash’s sudden shadiness from becoming an illuminating glow?
The intention was that the steel pillars would be illuminated by LED projectors and lit up in the colours of the stain glass windows of the city's Guildhall.
In a time when truth often battles with spectacle, Murrow’s warning that television should “teach, illuminate, and inspire” lands with renewed urgency.
Lying in bed at night, I would hear the thump of the neighborhood cats landing on the roof, their shadows on the fence passing my illuminated windowpane.
The evening ended with Gia and I standing beneath North Window Arch, illuminated by the nearly full moon, with a sky full of stars behind us.
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