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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'enlighten' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions enlighten verb  To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding. Translations:  French: éclairer(fr) Etymology: Uncertain; any of the following are possible ways in which enlighten was formed: light + en- -en, intensifying verbal circumfix; originally a by-form of inlighten, itself derived from the obsolete inlight + -en; or, in- or en- + lighten.<ref name="OED-etym">The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) refers to the circumfixation scenario as the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en (which, by definition, constitutes circumfixation).</ref>        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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