aureole
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) ("golden (crown)").
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
aureole (plural aureoles)
- A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 16:
- The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 122:
- They sat quietly, side by side, without speaking. Philip enjoyed having her near him. He was warmed by her radiant health. A glow of life seemed like an aureole to shine about her.
- 1916, Edwin Arllington Robinson, The Man Against the Sky, "The Voice of Age":
- She feels, with all our furniture,
- Room yet for something more secure
- Than our self-kindled aureoles
- To guide our poor forgotten souls […]
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Four, p. 69,[1]
- Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 16:
- (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1,[2]
- It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1,[2]
- (astronomy) A corona.
- (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
- 1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions":
- Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation.
- 1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions":
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
circle of light or halo around the head of a deity
References[edit]
- “aureole” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "aureole" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
- "aureole" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “aureole” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
aureole f
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
aureole
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
aureole
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of aureolar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of aureolar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of aureolar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of aureolar
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
aureole
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aureolar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of aureolar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of aureolar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aureolar.
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