ENLIGHTEN | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of enlighten in English

(Definition of enlighten from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of enlighten from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of enlighten

enlighten
It was not evident she enlightened any minds with this article.
Does it take leaving the world behind to become spiritually enlightened?
The answers he receives are enlightening: dinner, conversation, family, a mother's cooking, dreams, love.
From NPR
In fact, our purported efforts to enlighten ourselves about algorithms' role in our culture sometimes offer an unexpected view into our zealous devotion to them.
It would be enlightening to get a response from them.
And he's one of the more open-minded and enlightened, needless to say.
So, that's sort of sad and infuriating and enlightening all at once.
How, we asked ourselves, do we enlighten the public about this complex set of diseases we call epilepsy?
Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues.
Sometimes, though, we use that to pretend that liberal or intellectual circles are magically enlightened.
It's enlightening to read the comments by the fuzzy minded one world globlizaton nuts, here, and their fanatasies about this country.
We can help enlighten, inspire and empower the youth.
Someone who is enlightened has liberated him or herself from identification with anything that exists in time.
To be enlightened, to be entertained, to experience beauty and grapple with ugliness.
It will enlighten us in ways that no book or teacher or philosophy could, for it involves the intuition and not the intellect.
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Translations of enlighten

in Chinese (Traditional)
啓發,啓迪, 開導, 闡明…
in Chinese (Simplified)
启发,启迪, 开导, 阐明…
in Spanish
explicar…
in Portuguese
esclarecer…
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aydınlatmak, bilgi vermek, açıklık getirmek…
éclairer…
啓蒙(けいもう)する…
inlichten…
vysvětlit…
oplyse…
menjelaskan…
สอน…
khai sáng…
oświecać, uświadamiać, objaśnić…
upplysa…
beritahu…
aufklären…
opplyse, informere nærmere…
висвітлювати, інформувати…
просвещать, осведомлять…
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