单词	illustrious
释义	illustriousil‧lus‧tri‧ous /ɪˈlʌstriəs/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINillustrious Origin: 1500-1600 Latin illustris ‘bright, famous’, from illustrare; ➔ ILLUSTRATE Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The illustrious director Sir Richard Attenborough also attended the ceremony. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS First though, while in Cairo, Stirling met some illustrious company. For the present Posidonius had little choice: he had to rely on his illustrious friend Pompey. Polybius was ready to accept many, many tears from his illustrious friend and protector. Sometime between the lamb chops and the chocolate mousse, Maestro Domingo presented his illustrious cast. Ten years later one woman asks the husband of a particularly illustrious colleague what his wife was doing. The church of San Celso, now standing somewhat forlornly beside the bigger, more illustrious church, has the longer history. The laibon retells the accounts of his illustrious ancestors of the great migration from the North. Well, that brave, kind, illustrious man did not come home to us. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► most · The most illustrious committed unromantic suicides - more ovens, more tranquillizers.· Some of Britain's most illustrious ships were built at this yard.· Chapman was never to manage his most illustrious capture. NOUN► career · It was not, however, a storybook finish to an illustrious career. famous and admired because of what you have achieved:  She has had an illustrious career. Wagner was just one of many illustrious visitors to the town.
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