Definitions for illuminates

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illuminates il·lu·mi·nate

Spelling: [verb ih-loo-muh-neyt; adjective, noun ih-

IPA: /verb ɪˈlu məˌneɪt; adjective, noun ɪˈlu mə nɪt, -ˌneɪt/

Illuminates is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1048 anagrams from letters in illuminates (aeiillmnstu).

Definitions for illuminates

noun

1. Archaic. a person who is or affects to be specially enlightened.
2. Archaic. a person who is or affects to be specially enlightened.

adjective

1. Archaic. illuminated.
2. Obsolete. enlightened.
3. Archaic. illuminated.
4. Obsolete. enlightened.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply or brighten with light; light up.
2. to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
3. to decorate with lights, as in celebration.
4. to enlighten, as with knowledge.
5. to make resplendent or illustrious:
6. to decorate (a manuscript, book, etc.) with colors and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages.
7. to supply or brighten with light; light up.
8. to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
9. to decorate with lights, as in celebration.
10. to enlighten, as with knowledge.
11. to make resplendent or illustrious:
12. to decorate (a manuscript, book, etc.) with colors and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages.

verb (used without object)

1. to display lights, as in celebration.
2. to become illuminated.
3. to display lights, as in celebration.
4. to become illuminated.

Origin of illuminates

1400-50; late Middle English Latin illūminātus (past participle of illūmināre to light up, brighten). See illumine, Examples for illuminates

John groped vainly in mental depths for other experiences likely to illuminate this.

These numbers portend to illuminate society-threatening failures within the current immigration enforcement system.

Activists with flashlights should illuminate “vampires—foreign agents.”

Not a dozen houses responded to the préfet's invitation to illuminate.

It was a sky the sun did not illuminate or enkindle, as is usual at sunsets.

London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night.

Dispensing with some of the objections helps to illuminate this case.

Reading them will illuminate your own life and make it better.

Could you not illuminate that motto, Livy, 'Manners makyth man?'

She has chosen to share her story in order to illuminate the endemic problem of sexual violence in India.

Itself a mere point of light, it dominates and illuminates all time.

A golden glow, mingled with deep shades of purple, illuminates the sky.

A new book by Irshad Manji illuminates the path of hope—offering faithful dissent against a suffocating orthodoxy.

It brings the learner into direct contact with life and often illuminates the past.

The bare thought of the coming Paradise illuminates their dirty visages.

These fiery orbs are suns like that which illuminates ourselves.

It irritates more than illuminates, partly because the characters and their motivations are all too familiar, almost typical.

In this important volume, Jacoby illuminates a mind worth celebrating and the story of a life well lived.

We hope our film Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq illuminates the exceptional qualities of Tanny in dance and in life.

The spotlight of fabulousness which illuminates Charlene rarely rests on Albert.