Aurorean

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/

Origin

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements aurora + -ean.

Full definition of aurorean

Adjective

1. Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
• 1819, John Keats, “Ode to Psyche”,^[] lines 20–23:At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love: // The winged boy I knew; // But who wast thou, O happy, happy dove? // His Psyche true!
• 1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, “”, part II, canto v, § xv,^[source] lines 7–11:… There, hover’d in light, // That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright // And Aurorean clouds, which themselves seem’d to be // Brilliant fragments of that golden world, wherein he // Had once dwelt, a native!
• 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Birthday Ode”,^[] lines 337–342:From dawn of man and woman twain and one, // When the earliest dews impearled // The front of all the world // Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun, // To days that saw Christ’s tears and hallowing breath // Put life for love’s sake in the lips of death.