What does aurorean mean?
Aurorean means Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue..
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/ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/ · adjective
Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue..
1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.
1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300, […] There, hover’d in light, That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright And Aurorean clouds, […]
1896, George Santayana, Sonnet 50 in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Stone and Kimball, p. 54, Though no dawn burst, and no aurorean choir Sing GLORIA DEO when the heavens ope,
Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:
When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,
Use aurorean when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aurorean means Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue..
Common synonyms include auroral, dawnlike, dilucular, eoan.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.
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