Limn

Definitions: Limn

Limn

Verb

1. Trace the shape of.

2. Make a portrait of: "showing society what it looked like..portraying..its ugliness and its beauties..".

Date "limn" was first used: sometime around 1420. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LIMN	English	London Insurance Market Network	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Limn

Synonyms: delineate (v), depict (v), outline (v), portray (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Painting	Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Limn

English words defined with "limn": Limned. (references)

Specialty definitions using "limn": EYE-SORE. (references)

Etymologies containing "limn": Dislimn ♦ Enlimn, Enlumine ♦ Luminate. (references)

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Language		Translations for "limn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		portretizoj (paint, portray, profile), pikturoj (paint, picture, portray), ilustroj (document, figure, illustrate). (various references)

Arabic		‏خطط (adumbrate, blueprint, chart, delimit, delineate, design, draught, line, model, pencil in, plan, program, programme, project, protract, scheme, set out, streak, stripe, trace), ‏رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, protract, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave). (various references)

Bulgarian		рисувам (depict, design, draw, figure, image, paint, picture, sketch), изобразявам (depict, depicture, design, embody, feature, figure, image, picture, represent, typify), илюстрирам (exemplify, illustrate). (various references)

Czech		vylíèit (depict, describe, detail, narrate, picture, represent), nakreslit (picture, plan, portray, trace). (various references)

French		planifier, dessiner (line). (various references)

Greek		ζωγραφίζω (depict, draw, paint, picture, portray). (various references)

Hebrew		לציר (draw, paint, picture, portray). (various references)

Hungarian		rajzol (design, draw, drawn, drew, to design, to draw, to limn), ábrázol (depict, illustrate, image, portray, represent, to delineate, to depict, to illustrate, to limn, to picture, to plot, to portray, to represent, to typify, to write down). (various references)

Italian		dipingere (color, colour, depict, paint, picture). (various references)

Pig Latin		imnlay

Portuguese		limítrofe (conterminal, coterminous, frontiersman, limitary, neighboring, neighbouring), pintar (brush, coat, color, colour, dapple, depict, depicture, dope fiend, fleck, paint, picture, portrayal, represent), ilustrar (for instance, illuminated, illustrate), iluminar (beacon, burn, clear, enlighten, glower, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, lamp, light, lighten, post meridiem, radiate, relume). (various references)

Russian		описывать (circumscribe, declare, delineate, describe, escribe), изображать (delineate, depict, describe, figure, image, pictured, portray, reflect, render, represent), иллюстрировать рукопись. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slikati (paint, photograph, portray), nacrtati (construct, draw). (various references)

Spanish		retrato en miniatura, retratar en miniatura, pintar miniaturas, manuscrito iluminado (illuminated manuscript). (various references)

Thai		บรรยาย (describe, lecture, lecture about, lecture on, narrate). (various references)

Turkish		resmini yapmak, resmetmek (depict, draw, figure, paint, picture, picturize), çizmek (construct, cross out, depict, describe, draw, groove, line, mark up, picture, plough, plow, rule, scar, score, scratch, set, trace, write off). (various references)

Ukranian		малювати (depict, pencil, represent), зображувати (image, picture, portray, show, simulate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	luminare. (various references)
Middle English	1100-1500	lumine,. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "limn": limned, limner, limners, limnetic, limnic, limning, limnologic, limnological, limnologies, limnologist, limnologists, limnology, limns. (additional references)
	Words ending with "limn": dislimn. (additional references)
	Words containing "limn": dislimned, dislimning, dislimns, epilimnion, epilimnions, hypolimnia, hypolimnion, hypolimnions, slimnastics, slimness, slimnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Limn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blinn, iltn, imn, kimn, lamn, Lenm, libn, licn, Lidmi, lifn, lign, lihn, liin, lijn, likn, liln, limin, limine, limino, limni, limr, lirn, lism, lisn, Lym, lymen, Lympne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-l-m-n"
	-1 letter: lin, mil, nil, nim.
	-2 letters: in, li, mi.
	Words containing the letters "i-l-m-n"
	+1 letter: liman, limen, limns, linum.
	+2 letters: alumin, alumni, animal, cymlin, lamina, laming, limans, limens, limina, liming, limned, limner, limnic, lingam, linums, lomein, lumina, mainly, malign, maline, malkin, manila, marlin, menial, merlin, milden, milneb, mingle, moline, moulin, muling, muslin, myelin, nimble, nimbly, oilman, oilmen, simlin, simnel.
	+3 letters: ailment, albumin, aliment, alimony, alumina, alumine, alumins, ambling, animals, blaming, bluming, calming, clonism, complin, culming, cymling, cymlins, dislimn, drumlin, filming, flaming, fluming, fulmine, geminal, gliming, gremlin, helming, hemline, impanel, implant, inflame, intimal, kremlin, lambing, lambkin, laminae, laminal, laminar, laminas, lamming, lamping, lampion, legumin, lemming, liftman, liftmen, limacon, limbing, liminal, limners, limning, limping, limpkin, lineman, linemen, lingams, linkman, linkmen, loaming, lomeins, looming, luminal, lumping, mailing, mailman, mailmen, maligns, malines, malison, malkins, malling, malting, mandril, mangily, manilas, manilla, manille, maniple, manlier, manlike, manlily, marline, marling, marlins, matinal, maudlin, mauling, melanic, melanin, melding, melling, melting, menials, merlins, mewling, midland, midline, mildens, milking, milkman, milkmen, milline, milling, million, millrun, milnebs, milting, minable, mindful, mineral, mingled, mingler, mingles, minilab, minimal, mislain, misplan, moiling, molding, molting, monofil, moonily, moonlit, moulins, mullein, mulling, mullion, muslins, myeline, myelins, nimbler, nombril, nominal, oinomel, palming, plasmin, plenism, pluming, rimland, ruminal, seminal, simlins, simnels, sliming, smiling, ulpanim, viminal.
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