(a.) Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.
(a.) Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished.
(a.) Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles.
Example Sentences:
(1) As illustrious as some of the names are on the list below, Unions work democratically, by majority vote.
(2) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(3) It has this very illustrious record of people who attended but didn't graduate, including Anne Hathaway, Jackie Onassis and Jane Fonda.
(4) The effects of 5 pregnane compounds isolated from the rhizomes of Mandevilla illustris were examined against bradykinin (BK), Lysyl-bradykinin (L-BK), acetylcholine (ACh) and oxytocin (Ot)-induced contractions in the isolated uteri of the rat.
(5) Instead, Conservative ministers want to tell new migrants that Britain is "historically" a Christian country with a "long and illustrious history".
(6) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
(7) In this context it is easy to see why Fomenko is seen by many as a conservative coach – very similar, in fact, to his illustrious mentor Valeriy Lobanovskiy.
(8) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(9) While Horatio is one of an increasing number of children born using a sibling as a sperm donor, there is a good chance that none so far shares his illustrious name.
(10) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(11) The Scot Craig Ferguson recently completed a long and illustrious stint on CBS’s The Late Late Show , while Birmingham-born John Oliver’s regular appearances on The Daily Show have earned him his own HBO slot hosting Last Week Tonight and Londoner James Corden has just boosted ratings at the wheel of The Late Late Show .
(12) Brentford had dominated their more illustrious neighbours but it looked as though the goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli’s heroics and Hugo Rodallega’s eye for goal would leave them empty-handed.
(13) The lack of profit has not deterred a string of illustrious backers.
(14) Google’s illustrious founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sagely stated that “since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious”.
(15) Perhaps, those who had an illustrious career as footballers visualise the future more clearly but it wasn’t my case.
(16) Just as that penalty incident happened by the way, my illustrious editor stopped fanning himself to tweet: Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Note for @timewarnercable : TV picture-in-picture box too central to watch #RSLvLA AND #PORvSEA #firstworldproblems @KidWeil @Paolo_Bandini November 8, 2013 4.58am GMT 34 mins More Portland pressure (must get keyboard macro for that phrase), but finally Seattle get another look at goal as Demspey touches the ball to Eddie Johnson, whose shot is deflected just over for a corner.
(17) Four of the style business's most illustrious names had become involved and at least one fashion journalist was referring to it as "trousergate".
(18) There was a foul on our player in the build up to the goal.” Wright-Phillips clearly revels in ruffling illustrious feathers – he has now scored in each of the three Hudson River derby fixtures and his 10 th of the season ensured Kreis’ side were always chasing the game.
(19) It is said that Andreotti, when watching it, momentarily lost his temper, then admitted that the film was aesthetically remarkable, but that the suggestion that he was somehow responsible for many of the "illustrious corpses" of the First Republic was ludicrous – a fair reaction.
(20) Among the members of its staff have been some of the first and most illustrious ophthalmologists--those whose discoveries, teachings and writings have contributed to the foundation and development of ophthalmology.
Prestigious
Definition:
(a.) Practicing tricks; juggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
(2) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(3) The cost of a university degree under the new, deregulated system is hard to predict because it will be up to the institution to set the amount from January 2016, but experts acknowledge that the prestigious Group of Eight universities would be able to increase fees the most.
(4) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(5) Salazar, who coaches Farah in the United States, is the head coach at the prestigious Nike Oregon Project in Portland, and an ”unpaid consultant” for UK Athletics .
(6) Renzi is also in the market for a prestigious portfolio for Italy's commissioner, who could be either Enrico Letta or Massimo D'Alema, both former prime ministers.
(7) ‘Homelessness can affect anybody’ I knew someone who, despite her many prestigious qualifications, ended up sleeping rough because of her mental status.
(8) Love has disappeared from state-run education and children are suffering from the government's "long interfering arm and dead restraining hand", the head of the body representing many of Britain's most prestigious independent schools has said.
(9) The Mail reported that prestigious internship positions in a range of industries (finance, hedge-fund work, fashion, media and so on) recently raised more than £20,000 for the Conservatives at the exclusive Black and White party .
(10) It’s a beautiful industry that’s seen to be prestigious.
(11) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
(12) Not long ago, Imperial College's medicine department were told that their "productivity" target for publications was to "publish three papers per annum including one in a prestigious journal with an impact factor of at least five.″ The effect of instructions like that is to reduce the quality of science and to demoralise the victims of this sort of mismanagement.
(13) An unusual statement to present while receiving the world’s most prestigious peace prize.
(14) Within a few years of abandoning his sports career in 2000, and after studying at a prestigious business school, Urdangarin became the owner of a €6m (£5m) house in Barcelona.
(15) "If you look behind the headlines, the reality is that lots of students will not face fees anything close to £9,000 a year – including at the most prestigious universities."
(16) Winston became the second straight player to win the prestigious award in his first year of college, following Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel (a finalist again) last year .
(17) 7.58am BST Jessica Shepherd, from the Guardian's newsdesk, says surprisingly prestigious courses still have vacancies.
(18) However, our class, attending one of the world’s most prestigious business schools – the Stanford Graduate School of Business – had a special reason for doing so: we had all faced the possibility that our own professional achievements could be limited simply by being ourselves.
(19) Before the end of this year, one of our universities will win Britain's most prestigious academic prize.
(20) The pitch explained: "Now one of Europe's most prestigious event venues, it hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including the Conservative Party's Summer Party, where Mr Shestakov was introduced to Prime Minister David Cameron this year by New Century Chairman David Burnside."