Usually means: Artistic depiction to convey meaning.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word illustration:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. illustration: Merriam-Webster
  2. illustration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illustration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illustration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illustration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Illustration, illustration: Wordnik
  7. illustration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. illustration: Wiktionary
  9. illustration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. illustration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. illustration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Illustration, illustration: Dictionary.com
  13. illustration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. illustration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Illustration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Illustration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. illustration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. illustration: Rhymezone
  19. Illustration (f), illustration, illustration (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. illustration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. illustration: FreeDictionary.org
  22. illustration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. illustration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. illustration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. illustration: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illustration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illustration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illustration: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ILLUSTRATION: Masonic Dictionary

(Note: See illustrational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct;
noun:  The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
noun:  Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
noun:  A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.
noun:  A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)

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