aurora

əˈrɔːrənoun

What does aurora mean?

The dawn; also the curtains of colored light in the night sky near the poles.

Aurora, six ways

PlainThe dawn; also the curtains of colored light in the night sky near the poles.
ADHDDawn. Or the northern lights. Sky, lit up.
Gen ZThe northern lights, or just the sunrise if you are being poetic.
MetaphorThe sky remembering it has colors.
FormalThe dawn; also a natural display of light in the night sky near the magnetic poles.
Like I’m 5The first light of morning, or the dancing lights you can see at night far up north. That’s an aurora.

How to pronounce aurora

uh-ROR-uh/əˈrɔːrə/

Aurora in a sentence

We drove north hoping to see the aurora.
The aurora rippled green over the fjord.
In poetry, aurora can simply mean the dawn.

Synonyms for aurora

northern lightsThe everyday name for the northern aurora.
dawnThe older sense, from the Roman goddess.

Where aurora comes from

Latin. Aurora, dawn, and the Roman goddess of it.

Good to know

The northern lights are the aurora borealis; the southern lights, the aurora australis. The plural is auroras, or aurorae in older writing.

Aurora meaning, on a Gloss card: The dawn; also the curtains of colored light in the night sky near the poles.

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