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ILLUMINATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with artificial light
Example:
a well-lighted stairwell
Synonyms:
illuminated; lighted; lit; well-lighted
Classified under:
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb illuminate
Context examples:
The flame illuminated her hand stretched out: roused now, and on the alert for discoveries, I at once noticed that hand.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Abbot was left to himself once more, and bent his thin gray face over his illuminated breviary.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The apparition was very like his present self, and, as he regarded it, he noted the student-lamp by which it was illuminated, and the book over which it pored.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was a good fire, and the room was illuminated by it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A yellow bar falling across the black foreground showed that the door was not quite closed, and one window in the upper story was brightly illuminated.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Something in the emphasis he laid upon the kindling of those sparks, and something in the glance he directed at me as he said it, had made me start as if I had seen him illuminated by a blaze of light.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The new paper proposes a model for what might be happening on both the illuminated and dark sides of these planets, based largely on observations and analysis of the ultrahot Jupiter known as WASP-121b, and from three recently published studies, that focus on the ultrahot Jupiters WASP-103b, WASP-18b and HAT-P-7b, respectively.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That new moon illuminated your eighth house of other people’s money, so there are a variety of ways that new moon may have worked.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He saw, as if visible in the air before him, in illuminated figures, the whole sum, and the subtraction that followed and that gave a remainder of $43.90.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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