Definitions for haloes

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haloes ha·lo

Spelling: [hey-loh]

IPA: /ˈheɪ loʊ/

Haloes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in haloes (aehlos).

Definitions for haloes

noun

1. Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
2. an atmosphere or quality of glory, majesty, sanctity, or the like:
3. Meteorology. any of a variety of bright circles or arcs centered on the sun or moon, caused by the refraction or reflection of light by ice crystals suspended in the earth's atmosphere and exhibiting prismatic coloration ranging from red inside to blue outside (distinguished from corona).
4. Astronomy. a spherical cloud of gas clusters and stars that form part of a spiral galaxy.
5. an undesirable bright or dark ring surrounding an image on the fluorescent screen of a television tube, due to some fault either in transmission or reception.

verb (used with object)

1. to surround with a halo.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a halo.

Origin of haloes

1555-65; Latin, accusative of halōs circle round sun or moon Greek hálōs such a circle, disk, orig. threshing floor

Examples for haloes

haloes may appear around the disc of the sun, moon, or stars.

It hunted all the saints in the calendar till their haloes top-sided on their heads-her favourite St. Francis of Assisi excepted.

I kind o' used t' think she was all t' th' harps an' haloes.

It was the crowd of haloes that was causing so much brightness.

In the foreground are himself and his cousin as monks adoring, also with haloes, and expressions of mock ecstasy!

If helium was responsible we should have haloes produced in all sorts of colourless minerals.

All the holy Saints and Martyrs were tossing their haloes in the air as schoolboys toss their caps.

Why, they'd make the very angels jealous, and get pulling off their haloes and kicking them over the edge of heaven.

Seated together, their heads surrounded by haloes, the two lovers display their courtly charms.

Into it there stole a joyous luminance which made saints' haloes for the reflected heads of mountains.