illustrated
IL-uh-stray-tid/ˈɪləstɹeɪtɪd/
Noun pluralillustrateds
Pluralillustrateds
- 1Having pictures or drawings to go along with the words.
Like a storybook with a picture on almost every page.
The illustrated book kept the children busy for hours.
She bought an illustrated guide to wildflowers for the trip.
Similarpictorial
- 2Past tense and past participle of illustrate. Use this form for something that already happened.
The artist illustrated the whole book by hand.
She illustrated her point with a quick drawing.
Note
- 3A newspaper that has lots of pictures, not just words.
Like a magazine full of pictures, but printed as a newspaper.
He read the illustrated every Sunday with his morning tea.
Siegfried Kracauer was to be a particularly vocal critic in the twenties of the shift in perception brought on by the illustrateds.
1996, Stephen C. Foster, Crisis and the ArtsHere, illustrateds means newspapers with lots of pictures, not just words.Note
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illustrated is a form of illustrate
illustrate, verb: To make an idea clearer by giving an example. Full entry
- Forms
- illustrateillustrates he/she/itillustrating -ing formillustrated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- illustrate → illustrated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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