Definitions for aureoles

aureoles au·re·ole

Spelling: [awr-ee-ohl]
IPA: /ˈɔr iˌoʊl/

Aureoles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in aureoles (aeelorsu).

Definitions for aureoles

noun

  1. a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
  2. any encircling ring of light or color; halo.
  3. Astronomy. corona (def 3).
  4. Geology. a zone of altered country rock around an igneous intrusion.

Origin of aureoles

1175-1225; Middle English Latin aureola (corona) golden (crown), equivalent to aure(us) golden (see aureate) + -ola, feminine of -olus -ole

Examples for aureoles

There was an aureole of fine hairs about them which gave them the appearance of angel's wings.

The golden light of eventide illumined the city as with an aureole.

She shook out her long hair and it stretched about her like an aureole.

aureole: a ring of color which is usually diffuse outwardly.

The moonlight caught her grey hair and burnished it to an aureole of silver.

Her burnished hair was like an aureole about her, and in her eyes was the fire of victory.

aureole broke silence with a sudden: Mr. Heron, do you think Im happy?

aureole let her eyes follow the disappearing craft that contained Peter.

aureole looked up sharply: You could have told me to move, couldnt you?

My eyes came round to the aureole which was their usual magnet.

Word Value for aureoles
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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