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Meaning of Illuminator | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of illuminate:
  2. One who illuminates; an explainer.
  3. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsᵂ.

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Examples

“The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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