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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--lucent This week's theme: what does that company name mean? lucent (LOO-suhnt) adjective 1. Luminous; shining. 2. Translucent; clear. [From Latin lucent, from lucere (to shine). Other words derived from the same root are elucidate, lucid, and translucent.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Now I am nestling on the sofa, antique crystal glass in one hand, elegant bottle of lucent amber in the other." Victoria Moore; Sweet Surrender; New Statesman (London); Dec 18, 1998. X-Bonus He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

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