illumination
part of speech
noun (illumination — uncountable; an illumination, illuminations)
meaning for a pupil
1) Light, or lighting up a place: The room needs better illumination. tree →
2) illuminations (UK) = coloured lights used to decorate a town or seaside: the Blackpool Illuminations. tree →
3) Understanding or explaining something: Her talk gave us some illumination. tree →
4) A painted, coloured picture or letter in an old handwritten book. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science «illumination» is how much light falls on something; in history lessons monks made illuminations in old books; in Britain towns put up illuminations at festivals. Phrases: «street illumination», «the illuminations», «illuminated manuscripts».
examples
- Eliphas Lévi, the famous French Occultist, thus wrote of the "Sepher Yetzirah," in his "Histoire de la Magie," P. 54: "The Zoharis a Genesis of illumination, the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- The illumination in the hall was too dim to read. tree →
- We drove along the seafront to see the illuminations. tree →
- The old book had golden illuminations. tree →
- His explanation brought illumination to a hard problem. tree →
- Plants need good illumination to grow. tree →
- Street lamps give illumination at night. tree →
- Nor was illumination wanting in this fairy-like region, which at night was lit up by the glow-worms of the deep. tree →
note
Formal; in plain talk «light» or «lighting». Verb: illuminate. Spelled with double l: il-lu-mi-na-tion.
Trees and pragmatics
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