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# illustrious

«illustrious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Famous and greatly respected, for great deeds or a noble…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more illustrious, most illustrious)

### meaning for a pupil

Famous and greatly respected, for great deeds or a noble family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illustrious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a famous city, king or ancestor of great fame: «the illustrious Athens»

### examples

- The illustrious city of Athens was famed for wise men. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illustrious/#x1)
- The princess was of illustrious birth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illustrious/#x2)
- You are a citizen of illustrious Athens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illustrious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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