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illustrious

/ih-luhs-tree-uhs/US // ɪˈlʌs tri əs //UK // (ɪˈlʌstrɪəs) //

显赫的,杰出的,显赫的地位,辉煌的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : highly distinguished; renowned; famous: an illustrious leader.
    • : glorious, as deeds or works: many illustrious achievements.
    • : Obsolete. luminous; bright.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.famous, prominent

Examples

  • Now, in the second act of their illustrious careers, Musk and Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in July but remains its executive chairman, are bound together over a series of ventures that could define their legacies.

  • Just recently, Flutterwave joined the illustrious club that includes Jumia, Fawry, and Interswitch.

  • It’s a tough break for Swan, the former CFO who had a long and illustrious career in finance before ending up as the surprise pick for CEO at Intel almost exactly two years ago.

  • Previously, 2016 had held that illustrious title—and global warming records are getting broken faster and faster.

  • The illustrious Blue Ivy Carter has a resumé most adults would envy.

  • The savvy forger with Pappy empties to fill might get his hands on some Old Weller and present it as its more illustrious cousin.

  • And I realized that a man had to be pretty sure of himself, because she was quite an illustrious person.

  • Terman and his assistant relied on biographical accounts of illustrious individuals to compute the scores.

  • A few members of the real-life Bling Ring have had a more illustrious postscript than others.

  • In The House of Rothschild, I identified at least three members of that illustrious financial dynasty as gay.

  • William Pitt, earl of Chatham, a most illustrious English statesman, died.

  • Those illustrious heroes of antiquity became the companions of her solitude and of her hourly thoughts.

  • Disgusted with the frivolity of the living, she sought solace for her wounded feelings in companionship with the illustrious dead.

  • Jane was thus prepared by Providence for that career which she rendered so illustrious through her talents and her sufferings.

  • Her illustrious father found her when even a child as to age, quite his companion as to comprehension and mental capacities.