"illustrious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪˈlʌs.tɹi.əs/ [General-American], [-ˈləs-] [General-American] Audio: en-au-illustrious.ogg Forms: more illustrious [comparative], most illustrious [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin illūstris (“bright, shining; distinguished, prominent, illustrious”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree). Illūstris is derived from illūstrō (“to brighten, illuminate; to make famous or illustrious”), from in- (“in, inside”) + lūstrō (“to purify by making a sacrifice; to brighten, illuminate”) (from lūstrō (“purificatory sacrifice”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”) or *lewh₃- (“to wash”)). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|illūstris||bright, shining; distinguished, prominent, illustrious}} Latin illūstris (“bright, shining; distinguished, prominent, illustrious”), {{af|en|-ous<pos:suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree>}} -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree), {{der|en|ine-pro|*lewk-||bright; to shine}} Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} illustrious (comparative more illustrious, superlative most illustrious)
  1. Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known. Derived forms: illustriously, illustriousness, nonillustrious, unillustrious Related terms: lustrious Translations (admired, respected, or well-known): ἐπιφανής (epiphanḗs) (Ancient Greek), شَهِير (šahīr) (Arabic), مَجِيد (majīd) (Arabic), знатен (znaten) (Bulgarian), прославен (proslaven) (Bulgarian), знаменит (znamenit) (Bulgarian), il·lustre (Catalan), 有名 (yǒumíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 著名 (zhùmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 優秀 /优秀 (yōuxiù) (Chinese Mandarin), 輝煌 /辉煌 (huīhuáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 燦爛 /灿烂 (cànlàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 傑出 /杰出 (jiéchū) (Chinese Mandarin), vynikající (Czech), význačný (Czech), znamenitý (Czech), proslulý (Czech), illuster (Dutch), roemrijk (Dutch), kuulus (Estonian), väljapaistev (Estonian), silmapaistev (Estonian), lugupeetav (Estonian), auväärne (Estonian), hiilgav (Estonian), valovoimainen (Finnish), illustre (French), ilustre (Galician), egrexio (Galician), escrarecido (Galician), glorreich (German), erlaucht [dated] (German), प्रसिद्ध (prasiddh) (Hindi), विख्यात (vikhyāt) (Hindi), előkelő (Hungarian), famoza (Ido), glorioza (Ido), famoso (Italian), pulchrum (Latin), illustris (Latin), зна́менит (známenit) (Macedonian), про́чуен (próčuen) (Macedonian), сла́вен (sláven) (Macedonian), про́славен (próslaven) (Macedonian), taiea (Maori), znamienity (Polish), wspaniały (Polish), ilustre (Portuguese), знамени́тый (znamenítyj) (Russian), изве́стный (izvéstnyj) (Russian), просла́вленный (proslávlennyj) (Russian), сла́вный (slávnyj) (Russian), znamenit (Serbo-Croatian), ilustre (Spanish), ínclito [formal] (Spanish), preclaro (Spanish), illuster (Swedish), có tiếng (Vietnamese), nổi tiếng (Vietnamese), lừng lẫy (Vietnamese), rạng rỡ (Vietnamese), vinh quang (Vietnamese), ilusse (Walloon)
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          "word": "illustriously"
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          "ref": "1712 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 255; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 127–128:",
          "text": "A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues. Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and illustrious course of virtue, without any regard to our own good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.",
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          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 154:",
          "text": "Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!",
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          "ref": "1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, reprint edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 224:",
          "text": "The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?",
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          "ref": "2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2018-03-28:",
          "text": "[Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "знатен"
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          "roman": "yǒumíng",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "有名"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "優秀 /优秀"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "huīhuáng",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "輝煌 /辉煌"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "cànlàn",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "燦爛 /灿烂"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiéchū",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "傑出 /杰出"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "vynikající"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "znamenitý"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "illuster"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "roemrijk"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "kuulus"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "väljapaistev"
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          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "silmapaistev"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "lugupeetav"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "auväärne"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "hiilgav"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "valovoimainen"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "egrexio"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "escrarecido"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "roman": "prasiddh",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "code": "hi",
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          "roman": "vikhyāt",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "विख्यात"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "famoza"
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          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "glorioza"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "famoso"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "pulchrum"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "známenit",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "зна́менит"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "próčuen",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "про́чуен"
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "znamienity"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "wspaniały"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "ilustre"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "znamenítyj",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "знамени́тый"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izvéstnyj",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "изве́стный"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "proslávlennyj",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "просла́вленный"
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          "roman": "slávnyj",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "сла́вный"
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "znamenit"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "ilustre"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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          "word": "ínclito"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "preclaro"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "illuster"
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "có tiếng"
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "nổi tiếng"
        },
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "lừng lẫy"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "rạng rỡ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
          "word": "vinh quang"
        },
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          "code": "wa",
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          "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
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    },
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      "word": "overlooked"
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    },
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        "comparative"
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        "English terms suffixed with -ous",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Walloon translations"
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        {
          "ref": "1712 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 255; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 127–128:",
          "text": "A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues. Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and illustrious course of virtue, without any regard to our own good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 154:",
          "text": "Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, reprint edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 224:",
          "text": "The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2018-03-28:",
          "text": "[Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known."
      ],
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          "Admired",
          "admired#Adjective"
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          "distinguished",
          "distinguished#Adjective"
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        [
          "respected",
          "respected#Adjective"
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        ]
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈlʌs.tɹi.əs/",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šahīr",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "شَهِير"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "majīd",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "مَجِيد"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "znaten",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "знатен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "proslaven",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "прославен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "znamenit",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "знаменит"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "il·lustre"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǒumíng",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "有名"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhùmíng",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "著名"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yōuxiù",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "優秀 /优秀"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huīhuáng",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "輝煌 /辉煌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cànlàn",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "燦爛 /灿烂"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiéchū",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "傑出 /杰出"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "vynikající"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "význačný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "znamenitý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "proslulý"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "illuster"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "roemrijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "kuulus"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "väljapaistev"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "silmapaistev"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "lugupeetav"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "auväärne"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "hiilgav"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "valovoimainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "illustre"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "ilustre"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "egrexio"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "escrarecido"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "glorreich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "erlaucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "epiphanḗs",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "ἐπιφανής"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "prasiddh",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "प्रसिद्ध"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "vikhyāt",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "विख्यात"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "előkelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "famoza"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "glorioza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "famoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "pulchrum"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "illustris"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "známenit",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "зна́менит"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "próčuen",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "про́чуен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sláven",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "сла́вен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "próslaven",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "про́славен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "taiea"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "znamienity"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "wspaniały"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "ilustre"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "znamenítyj",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "знамени́тый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izvéstnyj",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "изве́стный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "proslávlennyj",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "просла́вленный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slávnyj",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "сла́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "znamenit"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "ilustre"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "ínclito"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "preclaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "illuster"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "có tiếng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "nổi tiếng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "lừng lẫy"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "rạng rỡ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "vinh quang"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "admired, respected, or well-known",
      "word": "ilusse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "illustrious"
}

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