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radiant
English
Etymology
From Middle French radiant, from Latin radians, radiantis, present participle of radiare (“to emit rays or beams”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?di.?nt/
Adjective
radiant (comparative more radiant, superlative most radiant)
- Radiating light and/or heat.
- Emitted as radiation.
- Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
- His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?! You?! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
- Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
- (heraldry) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
- (botany) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
Translations
Noun
radiant (plural radiants)
- A point source from which radiation is emitted.
- (astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
- (geometry) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
Translations
Anagrams
- anti-rad, antirad, intrada, itardan
French
Pronunciation
Verb
radiant
- present participle of radier
Latin
Verb
radiant
- third-person plural present active indicative of radi?
Romanian
Etymology
From French radiant.
Adjective
radiant m or n (feminine singular radiant?, masculine plural radian?i, feminine and neuter plural radiante)
- radiant
Declension
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illumine
English
Etymology
From Middle French illuminer, from Latin ill?min?re.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??l(j)u?m?n/
Verb
illumine (third-person singular simple present illumines, present participle illumining, simple past and past participle illumined)
- (transitive) To illuminate (something).
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 9, p. 185,[1]
- The moon shone faintly by intervals, through broken clouds upon the waters, illumining the white foam which burst around, and enlightening the scene sufficiently to render it visible.
- 1890, H. L. Havell (translator), On the Sublime by Longinus (1st century CE), London: Macmillan, Part I, p. 3,[2]
- Skill in invention, lucid arrangement and disposition of facts, are appreciated not by one passage, or by two, but gradually manifest themselves in the general structure of a work; but a sublime thought, if happily timed, illumines an entire subject with the vividness of a lightning-flash, and exhibits the whole power of the orator in a moment of time.
- 2012, Melanie McDonagh, “Where have all the book illustrators gone?” The Independent, 20 January, 2012,[3]
- […] the possibility that illustrations could actually illumine writing and draw out elements of a narrative doesn’t seem to count for much any more.
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 9, p. 185,[1]
- (intransitive, rare) To light up.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, p. 18:
- ‘Shell-shock.’ Our faces did not illumine so she dragged on lamely. ‘Anyway, he's not well.’
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, p. 18:
Translations
Anagrams
- limuline
French
Verb
illumine
- first-person singular present indicative of illuminer
- third-person singular present indicative of illuminer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of illuminer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of illuminer
- second-person singular imperative of illuminer
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