aureole
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Is aureole a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of aureole?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.Examples: "It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]"; "The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […]"broadly
2. (astronomy) A corona.
3. (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.Examples: "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."
4. (theology) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”).alt-ofalternative
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary