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illustrious
CEFRC1
/ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Very famous and respected.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailAdmired, distinguished, respected, or well-known.
Examples
Our illustrious leader wrote those words before he rose to power.
That poodle has an immaculate pedigree, with illustrious ancestors on both sides stretching back generations.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 2
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 4
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- [-ˈləs-]
- /ɪˈlʌs.tɹi.əs/
Deep Dive
More examples
In contextReally, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
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Origin
adjective
From Latin illūstris (“bright, shining; distinguished, prominent, illustrious”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree). Illūstris is derived from illūstrō (“to brighten, illuminate; to make famous or illustrious”), from in- (“in, inside”) + lūstrō (“to purify by making a sacrifice; to brighten, illuminate”) (from lūstrō (“purificatory sacrifice”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”) or *lewh₃- (“to wash”)).