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Definition of "illustration" []

  • The act of clarifying or explaining. (noun)
  • The state of being clarified or explained. (noun)
  • Material used to clarify or explain. See Synonyms at example. (noun)
  • Visual matter used to clarify or decorate a text. (noun)
  • Obsolete Illumination. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "illustration" in a sentence
  • "For example the term illustration can mean many different things to different people, and have many different costs depending of what's being requested."
  • "** I don't claim that the illustration is a perfect likeness (it's remarkably hard to draw someone from memory more than a decade after the fact), but I do hope it catches something of his hunched pathetitude."
  • "The period chosen for my illustration is the moment when the last shell fired from the fleet bursts over the battery; and the troops, illumined by the glare, are seen rushing to the parapet to repel the assault."
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