Definitions for Aurora

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Aurora Au·ro·ra

Spelling: [uh-rawr-uh, uh-rohr

IPA: /əˈrɔr ə, əˈroʊr ə/

Aurora is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Aurora (aaorru).

Definitions for Aurora

noun

1. the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn. Compare Eos.
2. (lowercase) dawn.
3. (lowercase) Meteorology. a radiant emission from the upper atmosphere that occurs sporadically over the middle and high latitudes of both hemispheres in the form of luminous bands, streamers, or the like, caused by the bombardment of the atmosphere with charged solar particles that are being guided along the earth's magnetic lines of force.
4. a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
5. a city in NE Illinois.
6. a female given name.

Origin of Aurora

1350-1400; Middle English Latin aurōra dawn, dawn goddess, east

Examples for Aurora

The gang-plank was hauled in, and the Aurora swung out from the bank.

Clevenger sounds little better than he did 10 years ago in a letter to the editor in the Aurora Advertiser.

She was a talented singer, and after graduating high school in Aurora she enrolled at Denver Community College to study music.

On the 16th of April the 'Aurora' dropped anchor in the harbour of Zanzibar.

The Aurora, like a hundred searchlights, was whipping across the sky.

Then Aurora saw that Tithonus was growing into a little old man.

Aurora Snow canvassed the adult industry to see which television shows excite its XXX talent.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article said Miller was from Marrionville but he lived in neighboring Aurora.

How did it come to be then that she would feel an affinity for Aurora and start to care for her?

Already has not its Aurora brightened the tops of my snow-covered mountains?