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aurorean en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/ (UK)

Etymology

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.

Meanings

1. Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
   • When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun, 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Birthday Ode”, in Songs of the Springtides,, London: Chatto and Windus, page 119:
   • 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,
   • 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, […]
   • 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: 1819, John Keats, “Ode to Psyche”, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor and Hessey, published 1820, page 118:
   • 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.
2. Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
3. Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.

Forms

Synonyms

dawnlike · dilucular · eoan · auroral

Translations (1)

cy awroraidd (belonging to or resembling the dawn)