illustrious in English

adjective

1

well known, respected, and admired for past achievements.

his illustrious predecessor

synonyms: eminent, distinguished, acclaimed, notable, noteworthy, prominent, preeminent, foremost, leading, important, influential, renowned, famous, famed, well-known, celebrated, legendary, esteemed, honored, respected, venerable, august, highly regarded, well-thought-of, of distinction, brilliant, glorious, stellar

adjective

• eminent, distinguished, acclaimed, notable, noteworthy, prominent, preeminent, foremost, leading, important, influential, renowned, famous, famed, well-known, celebrated, legendary, esteemed, honored, respected, venerable, august, highly regarded, well-thought-of, of distinction, brilliant, glorious, stellar
• far-famed, notable, noted, famed, celebrated, famous, renowned

Use "illustrious" in a sentence

1. GOD’S ILLUSTRIOUS NAME

2. She has had an illustrious career.

3. The perversion of our illustrious council?

4. This old place has had an illustrious past.

5. Behind the presumptuous General loomed the illustrious Marshal Petain.

6. First though, while in Cairo, Stirling met some illustrious company.

7. Noble rank did not represent "recognition of illustrious ancestry."

8. The Illustrious class was developed in the 1937 Naval Programme.

9. Some of Britain's most illustrious ships were built at this yard.

10. The Romans built these monuments to glorify their illustrious ancestors.

11. The composer was one of many illustrious visitors to the town.

12. He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a radio producer.

13. The most illustrious committed unromantic suicides - more ovens, more tranquillizers.

14. The illustrious director Sir Richard Attenborough also attended the ceremony.

15. Wagner was just one of many illustrious visitors to the town.

16. Hand-picking Assists from Lionel Messi’s illustrious career almost feels unfair

17. 23 The composer was one of many illustrious visitors to the town.

18. Hung - chien said, " Mr. Tung does indeed come from an illustrious family!

19. Archimedes of Syracuse was an illustrious Greek inventor, mathematician, astronomer, physicist and engineer

20. She comes from an illustrious political family which includes two former Cabinet ministers.

21. 27 The illustrious Cuvier did not perceive that a barnacle was a crustacean.

22. To succeed me as alcalde of this district, I am naming my illustrious predecessor

23. In 2007 the city council of Rosario awarded her the title of Illustrious Citizen.

24. In mid-June, she escorted the aircraft carrier Illustrious to Bermuda to work up.

25. Polybius was ready to accept many, many tears from his illustrious friend and protector.

26. He caused his illustrious name to be included in the Bible more than 7,000 times.

27. Two of us get robbed by your girls and a friend from your illustrious past.

28. Bezel is an extraordinary building imagined by illustrious creatives behind the boutique development group SolTerra

29. Marske earned a replay against their more illustrious with a 1-1 draw on Saturday.

30. Artesian has an illustrious history, having won numerous accolades including ‘The World’s Best Bar’ for four

31. Labour's illustrious memorial, the Welfare State, was - and is - fundamentally underpinned by these beliefs and attitudes.

32. Arteria is an illustrious product development company and a Founder Member @ SAP Co-Innovation Labs

33. 14 All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.

34. Presenting your royal highness, our illustrious King Julien XIII, self-proclaimed lord of the lemurs, et cetera.

35. BotanicaSEATTLE is the parent company of such illustrious brands like Baked in Seattle (Spot Edibles,) Mr

36. Ten years later one woman asks the husband of a particularly illustrious colleague what his wife was doing.

37. I don't need to conform to a prevailing stereotype in the search for distinguished and illustrious positions.

38. The laibon retells the accounts of his illustrious ancestors of the great migration from the North.

39. 14 When once glary verbalism and illustrious oath are forsaken in the back of the Bores.

40. Bravade Recorder Quartet - Promotion Video » Bravade is an illustrious and active recorder quartet specializing in Renaissance recorders

41. On the banks of the Welland they found the sylvan setting appropriate for such an illustrious academic institution.

42. 12 On the banks of the Welland they found the sylvan setting appropriate for such an illustrious academic institution.

43. Brian Walton, D.D., Lord Bishop of ChesterWith Notices of His Coadjutors in That Illustrious Which Is Added Dr

44. If by chance there were no illustrious literary figures to listen to, everyone went to bed early.

45. Sometimes there was also a fourth name, called the Agnomen, added from some illustrious action, or remarkable event.

46. Mr. Forth I am constantly conscious of my illustrious predecessors and daily find it difficult to fill their shoes.

47. Collard & Collard The illustrious Collard & Collard Piano Company was originally established as Longman & Broderip in 1767

48. It is the record of a glory that was short lived, but makes an illustrious event in Aarau's history.

49. The church of San Celso, now standing somewhat forlornly beside the bigger, more illustrious church, has the longer history.

50. In which he Apostrophized her progeni tor and predecessor on the throne as "the illustrious King George