Aureole

Quick meaning: Aureole is a noun meaning A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.

Meaning

A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
2. (astronomy) A corona.
3. (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
4. (theology) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”).
5. (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo.

Example Sentences

It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]

The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […]

She feels, with all our furniture, Room yet for something more secure Than our self-kindled aureoles To guide our poor forgotten souls […]

Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip.

Word Forms

• aureoles
• aureoling
• aureoled

Synonyms for aureole

Depending on context, synonyms include corona.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include corona, ring, halo, aureola, mandorla, nimb.

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