• Auroral

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ɔːˈɹɔəɹəl/, /ɔːˈɹɔːɹəl/

    Origin

    From aurora + -al.

    Full definition of auroral

    Adjective

    auroral

    1. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
      • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 227:This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and carolling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.
    2. Rosy in colour, blushing, roseate.
    3. Pertaining to the aurora borealis.
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