AUREOLE meaning: Radiant halo around celestial body

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word aureole:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

aureole: Merriam-Webster
aureole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
aureole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
aureole: Collins English Dictionary
aureole: Vocabulary.com
Aureole, aureole: Wordnik
aureole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
aureole: Wiktionary
aureole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
aureole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
aureole: Infoplease Dictionary
aureole: Dictionary.com
aureole: Online Etymology Dictionary
Aureole (horse), Aureole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Aureole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
aureole: Rhymezone
Aureole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
aureole: FreeDictionary.org
aureole: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
aureole: Mnemonic Dictionary
aureole: TheFreeDictionary.com
aureole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aureole: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)

aureole: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

aureole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Aureole: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)

Book Binding (No longer online)
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) A corona.
▸ noun:  (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo.
▸ noun:  (theology) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”) [Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.]

Similar:

corona, aureola, halo, mandorla, nimb, Aion, aura, urna, idolon, eidolon, more...

Opposite:

nadir, base, depth, lowest point

Types:

halo, nimbus, glory, aureola, corona, more...

Phrases:

contact aureole, metamorphic aureole, thermal aureole, more...

Adjectives:

metamorphic, golden, thermal, solar, bright, inner, shaped, luminous, large, red, saintly

Colors:

gold, yellow, amber, saffron, honey, more...