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Aureole

Definition: Aureole

Aureole

Noun

1. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Aureole" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a radiant halo", "golden".

Date "aureole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)


Specialty Definition: Aureole

DomainDefinition

Geography

Name given to that exterior ring in a series which is nearest the luminary in a corona, and is ususally quite distinct. It is reddish or chestnut in hue and, as a rule, less than 5 degrees radius. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A circular or crescentic distribution pattern about the source or origin of a mineral, ore, mineral association, or petrographic feature. It is encountered principally in magnetic and geochemical surveys. CF:dispersion pattern b. Discoloration of a mineral, viewed in thin section, in the form of a ring. Most haloes of this sort are caused by radiation damage by alpha particles emitted from uranium- and thorium-bearing mineral inclusions c. A zone surrounding an igneous intrusion, in which the country rock shows the effects of contact metamorphism. Syn:contact zone; metamorphic aureole d. A zone of alteration or other chemical reaction surrounding a mineral in a rock.e. See:halo. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Aureole

Synonym: corona (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aureole

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Repute

Chief; (master); first fiddle; (proficient); cynosure, mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon; (perfection); choice and master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy. ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels; (trophy).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Aureole

English words defined with "aureole": AureolaGlorioleVesica piscis. (references)
Specialty definitions using "aureole": parautochthonous granite. (references)
Etymologies containing "aureole": DoryOriole. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Aureole" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (aureole, corona, halo).

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Commercial Usage: Aureole

DomainTitle

Books

  • Art of Aureole (reference)

  • Aureole (reference)

  • Charlie Palmer's Casual Cooking: The Chef of New York's Aureole Restaurant Cooks for Family and Friends (reference)

  • Equilibrium and Kinetics in Contact Metamorphism: The Ballachulish Igneous Complex and Its Aureole (reference)

  • Not too correct an aureole : the recollections of a diplomat (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Aureole

"Aureole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.21% of the time. "Aureole" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)84.21%1687,710
Noun (proper)15.79%3202,518
                    Total100.00%19N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aureole

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aureole

60

aureole restaurant

18

aureole las vegas

8

aureole new york

5

aureole new restaurant york

4

aureole las restaurant vegas

3

angel aureole

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Aureole

Language Translations for "aureole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

aureolë (aura, aureola, halo), shkëlqim (aureola, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, distinction, eclat, effulgence, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flame, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glow, halo, irradiation, lambency, luster, lustre, nimbus, pageantry, polish, pomp, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هالة (aura, circle, corona, glory). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

слава (fame, glory, kudos, laurels, luster, lustre, record, renown), сияние (aureola, eradiation, flush, irradiance, irradiation, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, sheen), ореол (aureola, flare, gloriole, glory, halation, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Czech

  

aureola (aureola, hallway), gloriola (aureola). (various references)

   

Danish

  

aureol, kontaktzone (contact aureole, contact zone), kontaktaureole (contact aureole, contact zone). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aureool (halo). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

aŭreolo (halo). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

ljómi (halo). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هاله یانورگرداگردسرمقدسین , هاله نورانی اطراف خورشید. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sädekehä (halo). (various references)

   

French

  

auréole (aureola). (various references)

   

German

  

aureole (corona, halo), Strahlenkrone. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωτεινή στεφάνη, φωτοστέφανοσ (aura, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"ל" (aura, corona, crown, halation, halo, radiance, that). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fényudvar (bur, burr, corona, halation, halo, irradiation), dicsfénnyel körülvesz. (various references)

   

Italian

  

aureola (aura, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Malay

  

praba (halo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aureoleay

   

Portuguese

  

auréola (aureola, circle, gloriole, halo, nimbus, radiance, radiancy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ореол (aura, aureola, gloriole, halation, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oreol (aureola, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aureola (aura, halo). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gloria (aureola, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ayla (aureola, corona, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus, ring), atmosfer (atmosphere, aura, aureola), ağıl (aureola, compound, corral, cot, Cote, fold, halation, hovel, lair, pen, Pinfold, pound, sheep fold, sheep pen, stockyard, yard), hale (aureola, corona, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus, ring), ışık halkası (aureola, halo, nimbus). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сяйво (aureola, flame, nimbus, refulgence, sheen), слава (aureola, celebration, celebrity, chit chat, fame, glorification, glory, luster, lustre, odor, odour, renown), шана (aureola, obeisance, observance, worship), ореол (aureola, gloriole, halation, halo, nimbus), німб (aureola, gloriole, glory, nimbus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aureole

Derivations

Words beginning with "aureole": aureoled, aureoles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Aureole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aereola, areol, areoli, arepole, ariole, Arseole, Aubevoye, augelli, aurelos, aurels, Aureol, Aureola, aureolet, aureolin, aurola, aurole, eurolex, luteola, lutreola, Sarehole. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Aureole

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-o-r-u"

-1 letter: areole.

-2 letters: laree, ureal.

-3 letters: aero, alee, aloe, earl, euro, lear, leer, lore, lour, lure, olea, oral, orle, rale, real, reel, role, roue, rule, urea.

-4 letters: ale, are, ear, eau, eel, era, ere, lar, lea, lee, leu, oar, ole, ora, ore, our, ree, roe, rue.

-5 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, lo, oe, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: aleurone, aureolae, aureoled, aureoles.

 

+2 letters: aleurones, overvalue, urceolate.

 

+3 letters: belaboured, edulcorate, journalese, leukorrhea, loungewear, operculate, outgeneral, outlearned, overhauled, overvalued, overvalues, recoupable, repopulate, roquelaure, travelogue.

 

+4 letters: barrelhouse, beglamoured, counterplea, edulcorated, edulcorates, executorial, journaleses, leukorrheal, leukorrheas, loudspeaker, nonreusable, operculated, outgenerals, overcareful, overzealous, quarrelsome, redoubtable, reformulate, reinoculate, repopulated, repopulates, roquelaures, travelogues, unelaborate, unmemorable, unremovable.

 

+5 letters: barrelhouses, boulevardier, counterpleas, deregulation, doubleheader, equiprobable, extraneously, heterosexual, inoperculate, loudspeakers, nomenclature, nonregulated, nonreusables, outgeneraled, overpopulate, overregulate, overslaughed, pasqueflower, polyurethane, porcelaneous, preformulate, prosecutable, reevaluation, reformulated, reformulates, reinoculated, reinoculates, repopularize, reregulation, ribonuclease, somatopleure, somersaulted, superovulate, superposable, troublemaker, uncorrelated, ungovernable, unobservable, unreasonable, unresolvable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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