Dictionary

aureole en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/ (US)
• /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole.

Meanings

1. A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
   • 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. 1859, George Meredith, chapter 16, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
   • 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. 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 122”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
   • She feels, with all our furniture, Room yet for something more secure Than our self-kindled aureoles To guide our poor forgotten souls […] 1916, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “The Voice of Age”, in The Man Against the Sky:
   • Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip. 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 4, in Small Island, London: Review, page 69:
2. (broadly) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
   • The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […] 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 6, in The Farthest Shore, Atheneum Books:
   • 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:
3. A corona.
4. A ring around an igneous intrusion.
   • 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"
5. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”).
   alt of aureola

Forms

Deriveds

aureole hat · aureoled · aureolate · inaureole

Relateds

oriole · aureolin

Translations (18)

sh нимбус (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ca aurèola (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · sh nimbus (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · pl aureola (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · mi wāhi pupango (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · de Heiligenschein (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · fi sädekehä (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · cmn 圓光 /圆光 (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ru орео́л (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · sh oreol (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ru нимб (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ro aureolă (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · sh ореол (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ro nimb (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ja 後光 (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · de Aureole (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · fr auréole (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity) · ko 후광 (circle of light or halo around the head of a deity)

aureole en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/ (US)
• /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo.

Forms