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famous and admired; or worthy of admiration- an illustrious achievement
illustrious = famous and admired; or worthy of admiration
- We saw a great painting on the wall over their heads, of the twenty illustrious men who had invented the candle.Ayn Rand -- Anthem
- I knew he was feeling that this was just one more time when he failed to live up to his illustrious father's expectations.Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift
- I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- "Oh, that's the doctors in the theatre, conferring honorary degrees on the Duke of Hamptonshire and a lot more illustrious gents of that sort.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- Mr. Dorrico had been a janitor at Stony Brook for most of his illustrious fifty-year janitorial career.D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
- Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- He had been afraid that he could not save his illustrious employers from the anger of an excited peasantry.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- And above all, he was overwhelmed in tenderness for his friends, who were all illustrious.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- The experience of Great Britain affords an illustrious comment on the excellence of the institution.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- You must understand, good sir, that such unique talents are what crown the illustrious smee as uncontested ruler of the mimicry world.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- Good God, though we did play the brigand we might at least emulate the illustrious and spare pretty women.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some perplexity from it to my illustrious client.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- But what of our illustrious Eugenia?Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- That illustrious building was to Hugh a carnival.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- [heartily] Have I the pleasure of again receiving a visit from the illustrious Commander of Calatrava?George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- "Is the I for 'illustrious' or perhaps 'impertinent'?"Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
- Once it was back in my hands, I had a paper trail to show it had been part of the illustrious So-and-So collection.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- Then Uzume spoke, saying: "We rejoice and are glad because there is a deity more illustrious than Thine Augustness."Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
illustrious = famous and admired
illustrious = worthy of admiration