Definition of Aurra
Auro`ra, the Roman goddess of the dawn, charged with opening for the
sun the gates of the East; had a star on her forehead, and rode in a rosy
chariot drawn by four white horses. See Eos.
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Aurora (19), a city in Illinois, U.S., 35 m. SW. of Chicago, said
to have been the first town to light the streets with electricity.
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Au*ro"ra (&?;), n.; pl. E.
Auroras (&?;), L. (rarely used)
Auroræ (&?;). [L. aurora, for ausosa,
akin to Gr. &?;, &?;, dawn, Skr. ushas, and E. east.]
1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day;
the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
2. The rise, dawn, or beginning.
Hawthorne.
3. (Class. Myth.) The Roman personification
of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a
rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle
dew.
4. (Bot.) A species of crowfoot.
Johnson.
5. The aurora borealis or aurora australis
(northern or southern lights).
Aurora borealis (&?;), i. e., northern
daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric
phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin.
This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the
zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon;
when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the
corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle
points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the
heavens from east to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the
streams of light are then called merry dancers. They assume a
variety of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or blood
color. The Aurora australis (&?;) is a
corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere, the streams of light
ascending in the same manner from near the southern horizon.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named austrealis or borealis based on whether it is in the southern or northern hemispheres respectively.
Italian
- dawn, sunrise
- aurora
Latin
- dawn, sunrise
Aurora- Roman goddess of the dawn
Italian
- female given name
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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