illuminator

[ih-loo-muh-ney-ter]

noun

1. a person or thing that illuminates.

2. a device for illuminating, as a light source with a lens or mirror for concentrating light.

3. a person who paints manuscripts, books, etc., with designs in color, gold, or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of illuminator¹

1475–85; < Late Latin illūminātor, equivalent to illūminā ( re ) ( illumine ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

There the show continues with a series of additional paintings and altarpieces, as well as his work as a manuscript illuminator.

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The donation will also be used to support the department’s “Why History Matters” series and the new “Making History in Los Angeles” program, both of which contribute to UCLA’s responsibility to be an “illuminator of the path from the past to the present,” Myers said.

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If he saw himself more as savior than artist, Bispo certainly deserves an extended hyphenate: artist-historian-autobiographer-cartographer-documentarian and illuminator of his own idiosyncratic manuscripts.

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"Big crowd of students at a walkout at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans, where students are protesting anti-LGBTQ bills in the legislature," wrote the Illuminator's Piper Hutchinson.

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His coronation invite was designed by Andrew Jamieson, a heraldic artist and manuscript illuminator whose work is inspired by the chivalric themes of Arthurian legend.

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