Usually means: Renowned and distinguished; highly respected.
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  1. illustrious: Merriam-Webster
  2. illustrious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illustrious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illustrious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illustrious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Illustrious, illustrious: Wordnik
  7. illustrious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. illustrious: Wiktionary
  9. illustrious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. illustrious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. illustrious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Illustrious, illustrious: Dictionary.com
  13. illustrious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. illustrious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Illustrious (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Illustrious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. illustrious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. illustrious: Rhymezone
  19. Illustrious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. illustrious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Illustrious: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. illustrious: FreeDictionary.org
  23. illustrious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. illustrious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. illustrious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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

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▸ adjective:  Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known.

Similar:
celebrated, famous, known, noted, renowned, famed, proud, notable, glorious, respected, more...

Opposite:
ignoble, humble, lowly

Types:
famous, notorious, infamous, celebrated, renowned, more...

Phrases:
Mari Illustrious Makinami, The Most Illustrious, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, HMS Illustrious, Illustrious Corpses, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, carrier, british, new, very, aircraftcarrier

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...


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Similar:
celebrated, famous, known, noted, renowned, famed, proud, notable, glorious, respected, more...

Opposite:
ignoble, humble, lowly

Types:
famous, notorious, infamous, celebrated, renowned, more...

Phrases:
Mari Illustrious Makinami, The Most Illustrious, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, HMS Illustrious, Illustrious Corpses, most illustrious, opposite of illustrious, illustrious career, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, carrier, british, new, very, aircraftcarrier

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...



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