1 [C] a drawing or picture in a book, magazine, etc. especially one that explains sth:
50 full-colour illustrations
2 [U] the process of illustrating sth:
the art of book illustration
3 [C,U] a story, an event or an example that clearly shows the truth about sth:
The statistics are a clear illustration of the point I am trying to make * Let me, by way of illustration, quote from one of her poems.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for illustration is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is illustration a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, illustration is tagged as noun.
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