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il-uh-STRAYSHUN/ˌɪləˈstreɪʃn/

An illustration is a picture in a book, or an example that makes an idea clearer: as an illustration; an illustration of. Illustrate is the verb (already in the dictionary). Example is the everyday twin for the second sense; drawing for the first. Essays: use a graph as an illustration, not the whole argument.

Meaning

A picture in a book; also an example that makes an idea clearer.

Examples

• “Use the graph as an illustration, not as your whole argument.”
• “The children’s book needed a new illustration on page four.”

Good to know

an illustration of; as an illustration. Verb: illustrate. Everyday: an example / a drawing. Exams: illustrate with data. Countable pictures.

Near in meaning

example

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