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

A nitron illuminator flashed brilliantly upon shining levers—emergency controls that they hoped they would not have to use.

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It may not be amiss, also, for the illuminator to remember, that not unfrequently "a verse may find him whom a sermon flies."

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He traveled far and wide as a teacher and illuminator of men.

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He was munificent in his patronage of the arts, and was himself a skilled illuminator and bookbinder.

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He is described in the register of that institution as “illuminator, painter and engraver.”

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