adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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most
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The most illustrious committed unromantic suicides - more ovens, more tranquillizers.
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Some of Britain's most illustrious ships were built at this yard.
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Chapman was never to manage his most illustrious capture.
■ NOUN
career
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It was not, however, a storybook finish to an illustrious career .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The illustrious director Sir Richard Attenborough also attended the ceremony.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First though, while in Cairo, Stirling met some illustrious company.
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For the present Posidonius had little choice: he had to rely on his illustrious friend Pompey.
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Polybius was ready to accept many, many tears from his illustrious friend and protector.
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Sometime between the lamb chops and the chocolate mousse, Maestro Domingo presented his illustrious cast.
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Ten years later one woman asks the husband of a particularly illustrious colleague what his wife was doing.
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The church of San Celso, now standing somewhat forlornly beside the bigger, more illustrious church, has the longer history.
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The laibon retells the accounts of his illustrious ancestors of the great migration from the North.
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Well, that brave, kind, illustrious man did not come home to us.