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illumined

illumined adjective: illuminated. Also the simple past and past participle of illumine.

Adjective

illumined

  1. Illuminated.
    • And when the long-illumined cities flame, / Their ever-loyal iron leader's fame, / With honour, honour, honour, honour to him, / Eternal honour to his name.1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza X”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 14

Also used as

illumined is also the simple past and past participle of illumine.

Origin of illumined

From illumine + -ed.

Words formed from illumined

Questions about illumined

What does illumined mean?
Illumined means illuminated.
What part of speech is illumined?
Illumined is an adjective.

Words near illumined in the dictionary

  1. illuminators
  2. illuminatory
  3. Illuminatus
  4. Illuminatuses
  5. illumine
  6. illumined
  7. illuminedst
  8. Illuminee
  9. Illuminees
  10. illuminer
  11. illuminers

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