aurora

1. n. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises. Source: opted

2. n. The rise, dawn, or beginning. Source: opted

3. n. The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. Source: opted

4. n. A species of crowfoot. Source: opted

5. n. The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Source: opted

6. n. the first light of day Source: wordnet

7. n. an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force Source: wordnet

8. 1. The class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/rising">rising light of the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/morning">morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises. 2. The rise, dawn, or beginning. Hawthorne. 3. (Class. Myth.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. 4. (Bot.) A species of crowfoot. Johnson. 5. The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the heavens from east to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or blood color. The Aurora australis (is a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the same manner from near the southern horizon. Source: webster

9. The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess ofthe morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, ina chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. Source: adambom

10. n:100 n. an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force n. (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos Source: ecdict

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