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aureoles

aureoles is the plural of aureole.

aureoles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aureole.

Meaning of aureole

Noun

aureole (plural aureoles)

  1. A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
    • The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head.1859, George Meredith, chapter 16, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC
  2. (broadly) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
    • It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1
  3. A corona.
  4. A ring around an igneous intrusion.
    • Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation.1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions"

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Questions about aureoles

What is aureoles the plural of?
Aureoles is the plural of aureole.

Words near aureoles in the dictionary

  1. aureolas
  2. aureole
  3. aureole hat
  4. aureole hats
  5. aureoled
  6. aureoles
  7. aureolic
  8. aureolic acid
  9. aureolin
  10. aureoline
  11. aureolines

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