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Meaning of 'aurora' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Aurora [ n.]
- The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
- The rise, dawn, or beginning.
- 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.
- A species of crowfoot.
- The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

Meaning of 'aurora' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . aurora [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the first light of day
Example in sentence:
  • they talked until morning;
  • we got up before dawn

Nearby Words:

aura aurae aural aurantiaceous aurate aurated aureate aurelia aurelian aureola

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