Auroral

/ɔːˈɹɔəɹəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning..

Definitions by Sense

1. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
2. Rosy in colour.
3. Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.

Example Sentences

This first created light is properly the auroral light.

This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.

Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral.

Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl. But she was not demanding and she was not headlong and she counseled herself to look on this tenuous, auroral experience as one that would last only so long as she remained in England […]

Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,

The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful.

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• more auroral
• most auroral

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