illuminant

1. 1.

   something that can serve as a source of light

   Broaderfuel

Other forms of illuminant

plural

illuminants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about illuminant

What does illuminant mean?

illuminant means "something that can serve as a source of light".

How many syllables are in illuminant?

illuminant has 4 syllables and divides as il-lu-mi-nant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.