Usually means: Make clear or light up.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word illuminate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. illuminate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. illuminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illuminate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illuminate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Illuminate, illuminate: Wordnik
  6. illuminate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. illuminate: Wiktionary
  8. illuminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. illuminate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. illuminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Illuminate, illuminate: Dictionary.com
  12. illuminate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Illuminate... (The Hits and More), Illuminate (David Crowder Band album), Illuminate (Lydia album), Illuminate (Shawn Mendes album), Illuminate (band), Illuminate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Illuminate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. illuminate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. illuminate: Rhymezone
  17. illuminate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. illuminate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. illuminate: Free Dictionary
  20. illuminate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. illuminate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. illuminate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. illuminate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. illuminate: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illuminate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illuminate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illuminate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. illuminate: Idioms
  3. illuminate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illuminate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See illuminated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To shine light on something.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To clarify or make something understandable.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make spectacular.
verb:  (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
verb:  (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
verb:  (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.
noun:  Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
adjective:  (obsolete) enlightened

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