Illustration Definition

ĭlə-strāshən
illustrations
noun
illustrations
An illustrating or being illustrated.
Webster's New World
An example, story, analogy, etc. used to help explain or make something clear.
Webster's New World
A picture, design, diagram, etc. used to decorate or explain something.
Webster's New World
Illumination.
American Heritage
A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)
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Other Word Forms of Illustration

Noun

Singular:
illustration
Plural:
illustrations

Origin of Illustration

  • From Middle French illustration, from Latin illūstrātiō, from illūstrō (“I illustrate”).

    From Wiktionary

Illustration Sentence Examples

  • In illustration of this fact a simple experiment may be mentioned.

  • A good illustration of it is peat.

  • An illustration may make this clearer.

  • In 1792 Shaw began the Museum Leverianum in illustration of this collection, which was finally dispersed by sale, and what is known to remain of it found its way to Vienna.

  • It goes to the mind of the reader through a medium of sentiment rather than of continuous thought or imaginative illustration.

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Words Starting With

IILILL

Words Ending With

NONION

Unscrambles

illustration

Words Starting With I and Ending With N

Starts With I & Ends With NStarts With IL & Ends With NStarts With I & Ends With ON

Word Length

12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With I12 Letter Words Ending With N