Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: illuminated
IPA transcription: [,ɪl'umən,eɪtəd]
Pronunciations of illuminated
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted
    Meaning: provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"
Usage examples
  • The Duma brilliantly illuminated and great crowds pouring in.
  • Yet as soon as the sun is at the horizon, the whole hemisphere is illuminated from end to end.
  • Their coaches, which you can hear grinding the wheels two leagues off, are illuminated, carved, and hung with ribbons.
  • But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other.
  • And above the trees shone the great, round, shining face of an illuminated clock in the tower of an antique public building.
  • Every window opposite her along the block, as far as she could see, was illuminated with a row of lighted candles across the sash.
  • The palace was illuminated from top to bottom and from end to end; the windows shone like crystal, and from it came sounds of music and rejoicing.
  • On coming to the house of Berwin, the barrister saw that the sitting-room was lighted up and the curtains undrawn, so that the window presented a square of illuminated blind.
  • Then slowly the great shell closed, once more the shouting crowds seized hold of the straining ropes, and the great bivalve with its fair freight was drawn slowly along through the gayly illuminated streets.
  • The darkness is illuminated by torches, whose weird flames flare and smoke in the wind, and shine down upon the little sheds which line both sides of the road, and contain so tempting a display of cheap toys and trinkets that not only the children, but their elders, are attracted by them.
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