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ILLUMINATIONS

"ILLUMINATIONS" is a plural of: illumination.

Date "ILLUMINATIONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)


Specialty Definition: ILLUMINATIONS

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Literature

Illuminations Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon illuminations from the eighth to the eleventh century. Extreme intricacy of pattern.
Interlacings of knots in a diagonal or square form, sometimes interwoven with animals and terminating with heads of serpents or birds. (Sir F. Madden.
The Durham Book, the work of Eadfrid, Bishop of Lindisfarne, who died 721, is a most splendid specimen of illumination.
The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold, an illuminated MS. by Godemann, in the Duke of Devonshire's library, is worthy of Raphael or Michael Angelo. It was executed between 963 and 984, and is full of miniatures and designs in the highest style of art. Beautiful engravings of it may be seen in the Archæologia. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: ILLUMINATIONS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Celebration

Triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ILLUMINATIONS

English words defined with "ILLUMINATIONS": Padella. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ILLUMINATIONS": Illumination ♦ LIBRARIAN, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. (references)

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Modern Usage: ILLUMINATIONS

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Movie/TV Titles

Illuminations (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ILLUMINATIONS

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Books

  • The Gospel of Thomas: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Illuminations,) (reference)

  • Shadow Caster Clue Book: Illuminations (reference)

  • Works For Voice & Chamber Orchestra (Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal) (reference)

  • The reformist illuminations in the Gospels of Matilda Countess of Tuscany. (A study in the art of the age of Gregory VII) (reference)

  • Zohar: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Illuminations) (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ILLUMINATIONS

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The Paris Exposition at night showing illuminations. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: ILLUMINATIONS

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Even of love, he had lost the instincts and the sudden illuminations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: ILLUMINATIONS

"ILLUMINATIONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ILLUMINATIONS" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%7239,377

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ILLUMINATIONS

Language Translations for "ILLUMINATIONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

цветни илюстрации. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωταγώγηση. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illuminationsay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

iluminacija, ukrašavanje svetiljkama. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

luminarias, luces (lighting, lights). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

illuminering (illumination), illumination. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ILLUMINATIONS

Derivations

Words ending with "ILLUMINATIONS": transilluminations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ILLUMINATIONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allumination, illucination, illuminationg, illumintaion, illusination, ilumination. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ILLUMINATIONS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-o-s-t-u"

-1 letter: illumination.

-2 letters: illuminants.

-3 letters: illuminant, illuminati, illuminist, insulation, nominalist, simulation.

-4 letters: illations, illiniums, laminitis, lunations, mannitols, mountains, munitions.

-5 letters: allusion, antlions, illation, illinium, illusion, initials, insomnia, insulant, laminous, lanolins, luminist, lunation, maillots, manitous, mannitol, militias, millions, minutial, misunion, mountain, mullions, munition, nitinols, nominals, simulant, solatium, stallion, stillman, tallisim, tinamous, unionism, unionist, unisonal.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-o-s-t-u"
 

+3 letters: multidimensional.

 

+4 letters: transillumination.

 

+5 letters: transilluminations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Translations: Modern 		9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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