Usually means: Lighting or light provided somewhere.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word illumination:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. illumination: Merriam-Webster
  2. illumination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illumination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illumination: Vocabulary.com
  5. Illumination, illumination: Wordnik
  6. illumination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. illumination: Wiktionary
  8. illumination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. illumination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. illumination: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. illumination: Dictionary.com
  12. illumination: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. illumination: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Illumination (Miami Horror album), Illumination (Paul Weller album), Illumination (The Pastels album), Illumination (Tristania album), Illumination (Walter Davis Jr. album), Illumination (animation company), Illumination (company), Illumination (disambiguation), Illumination (image), Illumination (lighting), Illumination (manuscript), Illumination, Illumination, The Illumination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Illumination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. illumination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. illumination: Rhymezone
  18. Illumination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. illumination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. illumination: FreeDictionary.org
  21. illumination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. illumination: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. illumination: Collins English Dictionary
  24. illumination: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. illumination: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illumination: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illumination (art), Illumination (lighting), Illumination (manuscript), illumination: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. illumination: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Illumination (lighting), illumination: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. illumination: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illumination: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Illumination: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illumination: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. illumination: Lighting Design Glossary
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See illuminations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
noun:  Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
noun:  Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See illuminate (transitive verb).
noun:  (figurative) Splendour; brightness.
noun:  (figurative) Enlightening influence; inspiration.

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