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# illumination

«illumination» in Mova's school dictionary: **Light, or lighting up a place: The room needs better…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m1)

2) illuminations (UK) = coloured lights used to decorate a town or seaside: the Blackpool Illuminations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m2)

3) Understanding or explaining something: Her talk gave us some illumination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m3)

4) A painted, coloured picture or letter in an old handwritten book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m4)

### 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

- The illumination in the hall was too dim to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x1)
- We drove along the seafront to see the illuminations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x2)
- The old book had golden illuminations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x3)
- His explanation brought illumination to a hard problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x4)
- Plants need good illumination to grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x5)
- Street lamps give illumination at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x6)
- Nor was illumination wanting in this fairy-like region, which at night was lit up by the glow-worms of the deep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x7)

### note

Formal; in plain talk «light» or «lighting». Verb: illuminate. Spelled with double l: il-lu-mi-na-tion.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «illumination» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.