Definitions for AURA

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AURA au·ra

Spelling: [awr-uh]

IPA: /ˈɔr ə/

Aura is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in AURA (aaru).

Definitions for AURA

noun

1. a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere:
2. a subtly pervasive quality or atmosphere seen as emanating from a person, place, or thing.
3. Pathology. a sensation, as of lights or a current of warm or cold air, preceding an attack of migraine or epilepsy.
4. a companion of Artemis who bore twins to Dionysus. Zeus changed her into a spring because, in a fit of madness, she had killed one of her children.

Origin of AURA

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Greek: breath (of air)

Examples for AURA

His aura was calm, and his being exuded a subtle spiritual magnetism.

He was, in fact, of average height, but he had an aura like a pope or a head of state.

It gives them all aura, a collective power, an almost animal force.

That decision provided an aura of authority that attracted new recruits and seemed to pay off in the short term.

When I talked about scrubbing my aura, I was only trying to be funny.

He called back, "aura—you stay where you are—you hide, until it's over—"

Most of the Atari employees I saw projected an aura of almost delirious bliss.

"Lee—over there—" aura's whispered words were drab with horror.

Trembling, Lee stood up, with the mute, white-faced aura clinging to him.

Luckily it was Helen's aura, not mine, and she had to chaperone it and do the politenesses.