Other forms: illustrations
An illustration is a picture in a book, or an example that makes a point clear. A good illustration.
The two senses are the same idea, since both throw light on something. An illustration in a technical book does work no photograph could, since it can leave things out.
1nounillustrationA picture in a book, or an example that makes a point clear.
“One illustration explained what four pages had failed to.”
illustration is a picture.
Latin illustratio comes from illustrare, to light up, from in plus lustrare, to make bright.
Latin
illūstrātiō
Middle French
illustration
English, today
illustration
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French illustration, from Latin illūstrātiō. Middle French illustration, from Latin illūstrātiō, from illūstrō (“to illustrate”). by surface analysis, illustrate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA