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Definition: Northern Lights |
Northern LightsNoun1. The aurora of the northern hemisphere. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | = aurora borealis. (references) |
Geography | Aurora of the northern hemisphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Northern Lights The Aurora Bore'lis, ascribed by the northern savages to the merriment of the ghosts. (See Aurora .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Space | An older name for the polar aurora. (references) |
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Synonym: Northern LightsSynonym: aurora borealis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Northern Lights |
| English words defined with "northern lights": Aurora borealis ♦ The merry dancers. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | South of Northern Lights (1927) Under Northern Lights (1920) Northern Lights (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Aurora borealis - the Northern Lights.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights. |
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| Language | Translations for "northern lights"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | agim polar (merry dancers, north lights). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | северно сияние (north lights, polar lights, streamers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | polární záře. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nordlys (aurora borealis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | noorderlicht (aurora borealis), aurora borealis (aurora borealis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | revontulet (aurora australis, aurora borealis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lueurs boréales, aurore boréale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nordlicht (aurora borealis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βόρειο σέλασ (aurora borealis), βόρειο σέλας (aurora borealis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | északi fény (aurora borealis, merry dancers, petty dancers, streamers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aurora boreale (aurora borealis, streamer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 北極光 (aurora borealis), 北光 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほっきょく"う (aurora borealis), ほっ"う (northbound, northern suburbs, sailing north). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lossan y twoaie (Aurora Borealis), lossan ny twoaie (polar lights). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orthernnay ightslay aurora boreal (aurora borealis, polar lights, streamer, turn off the light), luz de. (various references) aurorã borealã. (various references) северное сияние (aurora borialis, auroras, merry dancers, north lights, polar lights). (various references) fir-chlis (the northern lights). (various references) polarna svetlost (north lights, polar lights). (various references) aurora boreal (aurora borealis, merry dancers, polar lights). (various references) norrsken (aurora borealis, north lights). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-l-n-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-4 letters: holstering, shortening. | |
-5 letters: ghostlier, hosteling, inthrones, nitrogens, nontheist, northerns, northings, regoliths, resorting, restoring, retorting, singleton, stringent, thorniest, threshing, trotlines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 72 74 68 65 72 6E      4C 69 67 68 74 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o r t h e r n   L i g h t s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0072 0074 0068 0065 0072 006E      004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48818486747184802467573748685 |
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