illuminant
illuminant noun: something that illuminates.
Noun
illuminant (plural illuminants)
- Something that illuminates.
- They seemed to note the positions of the window at the one end and the door almost at the other, and even to take into account the single pendent electric light which up till then had been the sole illuminant.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
- For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas. The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934.1946 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Natural Gas at Heathfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
Adjective
illuminant (not comparable)
- That illuminates.
illuminant meaning in Urdu
illuminant in Urdu
- illuminant
- اجالا کرنے والا ujālā karne vālā
Forms of illuminant
| plural | illuminants |
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Origin of illuminant
From French.
Questions about illuminant
- What does illuminant mean?
- Illuminant means something that illuminates.
- What is illuminant in Urdu?
- Illuminant in Urdu is اجالا کرنے والا (ujālā karne vālā). See Illuminant meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is illuminant?
- Illuminant can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of illuminant?
- The plural of illuminant is illuminants.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: illuminant (page history and authors); اجالا کرنے والا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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