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aureole
- /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/ UK
- /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/ US
Sounds like oriole
Where it comes from
From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole.
noun aureoles
- 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.
- Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something. It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]
- A corona.
- 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.
- Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”).
verb aureoles · aureoling · aureoled
- To surround with, or as if with, a halo.
Translations
Talk about this word "aureole." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/aureole. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. aureole. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/aureole "aureole." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/aureole.Cite this
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title = {aureole},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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