Illuminate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To provide or brighten with light.
  • v. To decorate or hang with lights.
  • v. To make understandable; clarify: "Cleverly made attacks can . . . serve to illuminate important differences between candidates” ( New Republic).
  • v. To enlighten intellectually or spiritually; enable to understand.
  • v. To endow with fame or splendor; celebrate.
  • v. To adorn (a page of a book, for example) with ornamental designs, miniatures, or lettering in brilliant colors or precious metals.
  • v. To expose to or reveal by radiation.
  • verb-intransitive. To become lighted; glow.
  • verb-intransitive. To provide intellectual or spiritual enlightenment and understanding: "Once you decide to titillate instead of illuminate, you're on a slippery slope” ( Bill Moyers).
  • verb-intransitive. To be exposed to or revealed by radiation.
  • n. One who has or professes to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to shine light on something
  • v. to decorate something with lights
  • v. to clarify or make something understandable
  • v. to decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs
  • v. To make spectacular
  • v. to glow
  • v. to be exposed to light
  • n. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
  • v. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
  • v. To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
  • v. To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate.
  • verb-intransitive. To light up in token or rejoicing.
  • adj. Enlightened.
  • n. One who is enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To give light to; light up.
  • To light up profusely; decorate with many lights, as for festivity, triumph, or homage: as, to illuminate one's house and grounds; the city was illuminated in honor of the victory.
  • To enlighten; inform; impart intellectual or moral light to.
  • To throw light upon; make luminous or clear; illustrate or elucidate.
  • To decorate in color by hand; adorn with pictures, ornamental letters, designs, etc., in colors, gold, silver, etc., in flat tints, especially without shading, or with merely conventional shading: as, the illuminated missals or manuscripts of the middle ages.
  • To display a profusion of lights, in order to express joy, triumph, etc.
  • Enlightened; illuminated.
  • Decorated with or as with colored pictures.
  • n. One who makes pretension to extraordinary light and knowledge. See illuminati.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
  • v. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
  • v. make lighter or brighter
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    clarify    clear up    elucidate   
    Cross Reference
    light    brighten    enlighten    inspire    elucidate    illuminated clock   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    explain    elucidate    enlightened    illumine   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    instructive    inspire    insightful    amuse    meaningful    convince    helpful    satisfactory    lucid    disturb