Definitions for illuminate

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illuminate il·lu·mi·nate

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

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

Illuminate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in illuminate (aeiillmntu).

Definitions for illuminate

noun

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

adjective

1. Archaic. illuminated.
2. 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.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of illuminate

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

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.