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illuminator

illuminator noun: one who illuminates; an explainer.

Noun

illuminator (plural illuminators)

  1. One who illuminates; an explainer.
  2. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsᵂ.
    • The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being...2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist

Forms of illuminator

pluralilluminators
alternative formilluminatour

Origin of illuminator

From illuminate + -or.

Words formed from illuminator

Questions about illuminator

What does illuminator mean?
Illuminator means one who illuminates; an explainer.
What part of speech is illuminator?
Illuminator is a noun.
What is the plural of illuminator?
The plural of illuminator is illuminators.

Words near illuminator in the dictionary

  1. Illuminatism
  2. illuminatist
  3. illuminatists
  4. illuminative
  5. illuminatively
  6. illuminator
  7. illuminators
  8. illuminatory
  9. Illuminatus
  10. Illuminatuses
  11. illumine

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