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Definition: AURORAS |
AURORASPlural1. Of Aurora |
Date "AURORAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: AURORASSynonym: Northern lights. (additional references) |
Crosswords: AURORAS |
| English words defined with "AURORAS": auroral ♦ Isochasm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AURORAS": airglow, auroral oval, auroral zone ♦ Magnetic Storms and Substorms ♦ Substorm. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "AURORAS": Aurora. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Hubble telescope has captured a complete view of Jupiter's northern and southern auroras. ... Credit: NASA. |  | The "Skylab" building which was used as laboratories. There was a lounge on the third floor. An all-sky camera on the roof photographed auroras. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Radiant faces, white foreheads, frank eyes full of cheerful light, auroras of all sorts scattered through this darkness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "AURORAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AURORAS" is used about 5 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "AURORAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | северное сияние (aurora borialis, merry dancers, north lights, northern lights, polar lights). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"AURORAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeropract, ahurora, aulora, auroa, aurola, auror, aurror, aurura, Autores, Avrora, Eurogas, europas, Europrats, Eurotas, Eurotra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-o-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: aurora. | |
-2 letters: arras, aurar, auras, roars, surra. | |
-3 letters: aura, oars, orra, osar, ours, roar, soar, sora, sour, sura, ursa. | |
-4 letters: aas, ars, oar, ora, ors, our, ras, sau, sou. | |
-5 letters: aa, ar, as, or, os, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-o-r-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: archosaur, barbarous, hadrosaur, paramours, rearousal, saturator. | |
+3 letters: archosaurs, graduators, guarantors, hadrosaurs, rearousals, saturators. | |
+4 letters: barbarously, barracoutas, coloraturas, farraginous, granulators, kookaburras, masturbator, overarousal, provascular, tyrannosaur, wraparounds. | |
+5 letters: adulterators, archosaurian, articulators, hyperarousal, inaugurators, masturbators, masturbatory, overarousals, oversaturate, renovascular, supraorbital, tyrannosaurs. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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