halo
halo noun: a circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Also the ellipsis of halo headlight.
Noun (1)
- A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
- Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
- nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
- The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
- her halo slipped
- O! yearning heart! I did inherit
Thy withering portion with the fame,
The searing glory which hath shone
Amid the jewels of my throne,
Halo of Hell!1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
- The bias caused by the halo effect.
- In both cases, they found that […] there was a halo effect (e.g., when a "low cholesterol" claim was made, consumers perceived other nutrients, such as fat, also to be at low levels when they were actually high). Andrews reported that these misleading halos were reduced only when the claims were...2016, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Food and Nutrition Board, Food Literacy: How Do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge...
- a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
- A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
- A roll bar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
Verb
halo (third-person singular simple present haloes, present participle haloing, simple past and past participle haloed)
Noun (2)
halo (uncountable)
- The anabolic steroid fluoxymesterone, also known as Halotestin.
Noun (3) capitalized: HALO
HALO (countable and uncountable, plural HALOs)
- Acronym of high altitude, low opening (“a type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude”).
- When you have enough experience, you can do a HALO jump.
- Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
- Acronym of high altitude, low orbiting.
- Weather balloons at maximum altitude are considered HALOs.
- Acronym of heavy assets, low obsolescence (“AI-resistant stocks”).
- Call it the AI immunity trade, HALO—for “heavy assets, low obsolescence”—or just another iteration of the jitters that have periodically rippled through markets since the AI investing boom began. […] Not everyone is convinced the HALO hype will stick around.2026 February 22, Hannah Erin Lang, “Wall Street’s Latest Bet Is on ‘HALO’ Companies With AI Immunity”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2026
Noun (4) capitalized: Halo
Halo (countable and uncountable, plural Halos)
- A member of the Angels Major League Baseball team.
- Alternative letter-case form of HALO.
- While US mega-cap tech companies have had a rough start to 2026, the Halo trade helped to push UK and EU stock markets to record levels by the end of February. […] Goldman defined Halo businesses as ones which pair substantial physical capital (where barriers to replication include cost...2026 March 1, Graeme Wearden, “AI-resistant ‘halo’ stocks drive UK and EU markets to record highs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2026
Also used as
halo is also the ellipsis of halo headlight.
halo meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
halo in Hindi
- luminous disc around the heads of saints
- तेजोमंडल tejomaṇḍal
- atmospheric phenomenon
- सूर्यमंडल sūryamaṇḍal, मंडल maṇḍal, परिधि paridhi, परिवेश pariveś, उपसूर्यक upsūryak
halo in Marathi
- luminous disc around the heads of saints
- तेजोवलय tejovlay
halo in Telugu
- atmospheric phenomenon
- పరిధి paridhi
halo in Malayalam
- ഹാലോയിലേക്ക്
More languagesFewer languages
- halo in Kannada
- ಹಾಲೋ, ಹಾಲೊ
- halo in Gujarati
- પ્રભામંડળ
- halo in Odia
- ହାଲୋକୁ
- halo in Sanskrit
- मण्डल maṇḍala
- halo in Nepali
- प्रभामण्डल
- halo in Tagalog
- palaba
- halo in Arabic
- هَالَة hāla
- halo in Indonesian
- nimbus
- halo in Persian
- هاله نور hâle-ye nur, هاله hâle, شادورد šâdvard, شایورد šâyvard
- halo in Vietnamese
- hào quang
Examples of halo in a sentence
- Chads can get away with most things because of the halo effect."
- The outer boundary of the homeoid is the boundary of the galaxy halo.
- The Eyes Above's shadow was clearly visible now, surrounded by just a halo of backshine.
Synonyms of halo
Forms of halo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | halos |
| plural | haloes |
| plural | HALOs |
| plural | Halos |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | haloes |
| present participle | haloing |
| past participle | haloed |
| past | haloed |
Origin of halo
Clipping of Halotestin.
From the halo in the team logo.
Words formed from halo
- 22° halo
- 22-degree halo
- antihalo
- Bouguer's halo
- Deuel's halo sign
- dihalo
- enhalo
- galactic halo
- halo blight
- halo brim
- halo car
- halochalcogenate
- halo effect
- haloesque
- halofinding
- halo hat
- haloless
- halolike
- halo nucleus
- halo orbit
- haloscope
- halo sign
- intrahalo
- massive and compact halo object
- massive astronomical compact halo object
- massive astrophysical compact halo object
- massive compact halo object
- microhalo
- minihalo
- near-rectilinear halo orbit
- neutron halo
- nuclear halo
- pleochroic halo
- protohalo
- proton halo
- radio halo
- radiohalo
- solar halo
- sprite halo
- subhalo
- Ulloa's halo
Phrases with halo
- halo cars
- halo hats
- halo brims
- halo signs
- halo nuclei
- halo orbits
- halo effects
- halo headlight
- halo headlights
- massive compact halo objects
- near-rectilinear halo orbits
- massive and compact halo objects
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about halo
- What does halo mean?
- Halo means a circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- What is halo in Hindi?
- Halo in Hindi is तेजोमंडल (tejomaṇḍal), सूर्यमंडल (sūryamaṇḍal), मंडल (maṇḍal). See Halo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is halo?
- Halo can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of halo?
- The plural of halo is halos.
Words near halo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: halo (page history and authors); HALO (page history and authors); Halo (page history and authors); halo (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); halo (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); halo (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); halo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); halo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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