illumine

Other forms of illumine

past tense

illumined·

present participle

illumining·

third person

illumines·

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 illumine

What does illumine mean?

illumine means "make lighter or brighter".

How many syllables are in illumine?

illumine has 3 syllables and divides as il-lu-mine 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.

What is another word for illumine?

Close synonyms include light, illume, light up, illuminate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is illumine a common word?

illumine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.