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Northern Lights

Definition: Northern Lights

Northern Lights

Noun

1. The aurora of the northern hemisphere.

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

Specialty Definitions: Northern Lights

DomainDefinitions

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)

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

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Synonym: Northern Lights

Synonym: aurora borealis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Northern Lights

English words defined with "northern lights": Aurora borealisThe merry dancers. (references)

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Modern Usage: Northern Lights

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

South of Northern Lights (1927)

Under Northern Lights (1920)

Northern Lights (1914)

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

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Commercial Usage: Northern Lights

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aurora : The Northern Lights in Mythology, History and Science (reference)

  • Deep Harbor (The Northern Lights Series , No 2) (reference)

  • Northern Lights (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Northern Lights

Computer Images:
Northern Lights

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Photo Album: Northern Lights

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Aurora borealis - the Northern Lights.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Use in Literature: Northern Lights

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Northern Lights

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

   

Portuguese

  

aurora boreal (aurora borealis, polar lights, streamer, turn off the light), luz de. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aurorã borealã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

северное сияние (aurora borialis, auroras, merry dancers, north lights, polar lights). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

fir-chlis (the northern lights). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polarna svetlost (north lights, polar lights). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aurora boreal (aurora borealis, merry dancers, polar lights). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

norrsken (aurora borealis, north lights). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Northern Lights

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Northern Lights


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 72 74 68 65 72 6E      4C 69 67 68 74 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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)

&#78 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#115

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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