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# illumination

noun (illumination — uncountable; an illumination, illuminations)

«illumination» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Light, or lighting up a place: The room needs better illumination. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m1)
2. illuminations (UK) = coloured lights used to decorate a town or seaside: the Blackpool Illuminations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m2)
3. Understanding or explaining something: Her talk gave us some illumination. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m3)
4. A painted, coloured picture or letter in an old handwritten book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science «illumination» is how much light falls on something; in history lessons monks made illuminations in old books; in Britain towns put up illuminations at festivals. Phrases: «street illumination», «the illuminations», «illuminated manuscripts».

### Examples

- The illumination in the hall was too dim to read. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x1)
- We drove along the seafront to see the illuminations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x2)
- The old book had golden illuminations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x3)
- His explanation brought illumination to a hard problem. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x4)
- Plants need good illumination to grow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x5)
- Street lamps give illumination at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x6)
- Nor was illumination wanting in this fairy-like region, which at night was lit up by the glow-worms of the deep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/#x7)

### Note

Formal; in plain talk «light» or «lighting». Verb: illuminate. Spelled with double l: il-lu-mi-na-tion.

## In Jewish tradition

In science «illumination» is how much light falls on something; in history lessons monks made illuminations in old books; in Britain towns put up illuminations at festivals. Phrases: «street illumination», «the illuminations», «illuminated manuscripts».

### Examples

- Eliphas Lévi, the famous French Occultist, thus wrote of the "Sepher Yetzirah," in his "Histoire de la Magie," P. 54: "The Zoharis a Genesis of illumination, the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/illumination/#x1)

### Note

Formal; in plain talk «light» or «lighting». Verb: illuminate. Spelled with double l: il-lu-mi-na-tion.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «illumination» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/illumination/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«illumination» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/illumination.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «illumination» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/illumination/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«illumination» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/illumination.html) on Mova free.