"enlightening" meaning in All languages combined

See enlightening on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} enlightening
  1. Serving to enlighten. Derived forms: enlighteningly, unenlightening
    Sense id: en-enlightening-en-adj-oHaqyagB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} enlightening
  1. present participle and gerund of enlighten Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: enlighten
    Sense id: en-enlightening-en-verb-WcQJVBEa
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "enlightening",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "enlighten"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of enlighten"
      ],
      "id": "en-enlightening-en-verb-WcQJVBEa",
      "links": [
        [
          "enlighten",
          "enlighten#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enlightening"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "enlightening",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "enlighteningly"
        },
        {
          "word": "unenlightening"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:",
          "text": "Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Serving to enlighten."
      ],
      "id": "en-enlightening-en-adj-oHaqyagB",
      "links": [
        [
          "enlighten",
          "enlighten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enlightening"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "enlightening",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "enlighten"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of enlighten"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enlighten",
          "enlighten#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enlightening"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "enlighteningly"
    },
    {
      "word": "unenlightening"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "enlightening",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:",
          "text": "Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Serving to enlighten."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enlighten",
          "enlighten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enlightening"
}

Download raw JSONL data for enlightening meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.