Definitions for halos

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halos ha·lo

Spelling: [hey-loh]

IPA: /ˈheɪ loʊ/

Halos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in halos (ahlos).

Definitions for halos

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 halos

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

Examples for halos

Her hair was soft and light, and formed a halo round her forehead.

For Microsoft in 2014, this meant showing the new Call of Duty, a halo collection, and other entries in established franchises.

Functionally, the end product makes walking around look a lot like playing a first-person shooter game like halo.

Maybe someday, the ARC4 system could even turn your walk to work into a game of halo.

The star is the cream itself, as opulent as crème fraiche, with vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, etc., serving as a sort of halo.

There is always a ring of land round a town, like a halo round the moon.

In her eagerness, it was as if the halo of joy that surrounded her were quivering.

“You gotta play ‘halo’ for your angel-fish,” she instructs.

She placed him on a dizzy height above her, amid a halo of goodness and grandeur.

And the halo formed of those tears ennobled all she saw about her.