The actor's illustrious career was honored at a gala event attended by a bevy of A-list celebrities.
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Illustrious
//ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs//
Synonyms for "illustrious" (67 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (33)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπιφανής adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Arabic
2 entries- شَهِير adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- مَجِيد adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Bulgarian
3 entries- знаменит adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- знатен adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- прославен adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Catalan
1 entries- il·lustre adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 傑出 /杰出 adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- 優秀 /优秀 adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- 有名 adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- 燦爛 /灿烂 adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Czech
4 entries- proslulý adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- vynikající adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- význačný adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- znamenitý adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Dutch
2 entries- illuster adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- roemrijk adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Estonian
4 entries- auväärne adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- hiilgav adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- kuulus adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- lugupeetav adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Finnish
1 entries- valovoimainen adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
French
1 entries- illustre adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Galician
3 entries- egrexio adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- escrarecido adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- ilustre adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
German
2 entries- erlaucht adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- glorreich adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Hindi
2 entries- प्रसिद्ध adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- विख्यात adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Hungarian
1 entries- előkelő adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Ido
2 entries- famoza adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- glorioza adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Italian
1 entries- famoso adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Latin
2 entries- illustris adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- pulchrum adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Macedonian
4 entries- зна́менит adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- про́славен adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- про́чуен adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- сла́вен adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Māori
1 entries- taiea adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ماجد adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Polish
2 entries- wspaniały adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- znamienity adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Portuguese
1 entries- ilustre adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Russian
4 entries- знамени́тый adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- изве́стный adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- просла́вленный adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- сла́вный adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- znamenit adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Spanish
3 entries- ilustre adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- preclaro adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- ínclito adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Swedish
1 entries- illuster adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Vietnamese
4 entries- có tiếng adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- lừng lẫy adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- nổi tiếng adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
- rạng rỡ adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Walloon
1 entries- ilusse adj (admired, respected, or well-known)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
That poodle has an immaculate pedigree, with illustrious ancestors on both sides stretching back generations.
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Our illustrious leader wrote those words before he rose to power.
Source: tatoeba (9032601)
In a career just barely a decade old, he has been seen and heard on illustrious stages in Vienna, London, Milan, Zurich, New York and Los Angeles — in an array of lyric tenor roles.
Source: tatoeba (11361775)
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