auroran.

/ɒˈrɔːrə/

/ɔːˈrɔːrə/

/əˈrɔːrə/

Etymology: Latin; = dawn, goddess of the dawn, orient. Rarely in French form aurore.

1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]

aristc825

dawingc900

dayeOE

day-rimOE

day-redOE

mornOE

lightOE

lightingOE

dawning1297

day-rowa1300

grekinga1300

uprista1300

dayninga1325

uprisingc1330

sun arisingc1350

springc1380

springingc1380

day-springa1382

morrowingc1384

dayingc1400

daylighta1425

upspring1471

aurora1483

sky1515

orienta1522

breaking of the day1523

daybreak1530

day-peep1530

morrow dayc1530

peep of the morning1530

prick of the day?1533

morning1535

day-breaking1565

creek1567

sunup1572

breach of the day1579

break of day or morn1584

peep of day1587

uprise1594

dawna1616

day-dawn1616

peep of dawn1751

strike of day1790

skreigh1802

sunbreak1822

day-daw1823

screech1829

dayclean1835

sun dawn1835

first light1838

morning-red1843

piccaninny sun1846

piccaninny daylightc1860

gloaming1873

glooming1877

sparrow-fart1886

crack1887

sun-spring1900

piccaninny dawn1936

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 430/4 On the thyrd nyght after, nygh the rysyng of aurora.

1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 57 I may call it Lumen crepusculinum, the Aurora of the moon.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 124 The Antarctick Oriency of a Western Aurore.

2. personified, The (Roman) goddess of the dawn, represented as rising with rosy fingers from the saffron-coloured bed of Tithonus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities

Plutoc1330

Herculesc1369

Proteusa1425

Tellusc1425

chaosa1522

grace1538

terminus1565

victory1569

Hymena1593

harvest queen1598

Hades1599

aurora1610

puffer1615

Egeria1624

hour1637

Hygeia1737

Kore1844

Nike1846

vintage-god1873

1610 W. Baldwin et al. in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. i. 6 Sweete Aurora.

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 31 Zephir with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying.

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 1 Aurora now, fair Daughter of the Dawn.

3. figurative. The beginning, the early period; poetic for ‘rise,’ ‘dawn,’ ‘morn,’ in same figurative sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

beginninga1225

springc1225

commencementc1250

ginninga1300

comsingc1325

entryc1330

aginning1340

alphac1384

incomea1400

formec1400

ingressc1420

birtha1425

principlea1449

comsementa1450

resultancec1450

inition1463

inceptiona1483

entering1526

originala1529

inchoation1530

opening1531

starting1541

principium1550

entrance1553

onset1561

rise1589

begin1590

ingate1591

overture1595

budding1601

initiationa1607

starting off1616

dawninga1631

dawn1633

impriminga1639

start1644

fall1647

initial1656

outset1664

outsettinga1698

going off1714

offsetting1782

offset1791

commence1794

aurora1806

incipiency1817

set-out1821

set-in1826

throw-off1828

go-off1830

outstart1844

start1857

incipience1864

oncome1865

kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. xi. 217 The virtues which had so brilliantly illuminated the aurora of their church.

1859 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 27 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vi. 497 An aurora of mirth, which probably will not be very exuberant in its noontide.

4. poetic. The East, the Orient. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun]

eastwardeOE

eastc1175

sunrisinga1382

orientc1385

sun-springa1400

eastwarda1450

eastwards?1574

sunristc1600

rising sun1613

aurora1617

morn1647

moonrise1728

morning-land1838

dawning1879

1617 W. Drummond Forth Feasting sig. B1^v They make the Scythian them adore, The Gaditan the Souldier of Aurore.

5. A luminous atmospheric phenomenon, now considered to be of electrical character, occurring in the vicinity of, or radiating from, the earth's northern or southern magnetic pole, and visible from time to time by night over more or less of the adjoining hemisphere, or even of the earth's surface generally; popularly called the Northern (or Southern) Lights, merry-dancers, streamers, etc.The northern lights, being alone conspicuous in Europe, had from the earliest periods various popular names in the northern languages; they began to attract scientific attention early in the 17th cent., and were described by Gassendi in 1621 (see quot. 1822 for aurora borealis n. at Compounds 1) under the descriptive appellation of aurora borealis or ‘northern dawn’, their simplest form suggesting the appearance of dawn or approaching sunrise on the northern horizon; this appellation (occasionally varied as aurora septentrionalis) passed into general scientific use. On the recognition of similar phenomena in the antarctic regions, these were called aurora australis or ‘southern lights’; whence aurora came to be used generically as the proper term for the phenomenon, without any thought of ‘dawn,’ and with English plural auroras; and this has become the ordinary prose meaning of aurora, the preceding senses being only poetical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora

aurora1717

1717 [see aurora borealis n. at Compounds 1].

1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 425 Last, she sublimes th' Aurora of the Poles, The flashing elements of Female Souls.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xiv. 216 There was an aurora at night.

1855 Scoffern Pract. Meteorol. 98 After 1790 auroras became unfrequent, but since 1825 they have been on the increase.

1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 37 The appearance of auroras is invariably accompanied by magnetic irregularities.

1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 211 Lit up by auroræ and long lingering twilights.

1874 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 6) 359 In air rarefied by the air-pump an aurora or discharge of five or six inches long could be obtained.

6. The colour of the sky at the point of sun-rise; a rich orange hue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > orange > [noun] > deep orange

aurora1791

mandarin orange1877

Tangerine1899

tango1913

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. §4. iv. 273 For silks to be dyed of an aurora or orange colour.

1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 189 If an orange, or an aurora be required.

1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 33 Orange-reds, such as scarlet, nacarat, and aurora.

7. Used as the popular or trivial name of various species of animals, as of a monkey ( Chrysothrix sciurea), a sea-anemone, and as the fancy name of varieties of various flowers, e.g. of a ranunculus.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Saimiri (squirrel monkey)

monkey squirrel1674

squirrel monkey1773

aurora1774

saimiri1774

sakawinki1954

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of

sea-nettle1601

red nettle1611

sea-spout1731

anemone1742

sea-anemone1742

sea-mushroom1742

sea-pudding1750

actinia1752

sea-carnation1768

sea star-flower1768

sea-sunflower1768

sea-daisya1776

sea-marigolda1776

sea-torchthistlea1776

insect-flower1791

sea-flower1850

aurora1858

actiniarian1874

actinian1876

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 236 The last..of the monkies that hold by the tail is the Samiri, or Aurora; which is the smallest and most beautiful of all.

1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. Index.

Compounds

C1. See sense 5.

aurora australis n.

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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora australis

aurora australis1744

southern lights1773

1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 744 (title) An account of the Aurora Australis observed at Rome, January 27, 1740.

aurora borealis n. (also transferred).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora borealis

dancing-goats1563

petty dancers1635

streaming1694

north-light1706

aurora borealis1717

dancersc1717

northern morning1717

northern lights1722

aurora septentrionalis1728

northern dawn1728

northern light1728

morris dancers1735

streamers1735

north-shine1738

fire-flaught1787

boreal dawn1805

northern morn1822

firelights1845

1717 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 584 On February the 5th, 1716–7, at Eight at Night, an Aurora Borealis appeared.

1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton I. 131 She was eclipsed by an Aurora Borealis in the matrimonial sphere.

1822 Burrowes Cycl. (at cited word) On Sept. 2nd, 1621, the same phenomenon was seen all over France; and it was particularly described by Gassendus in his Physics, who gave it the name of aurora borealis.

1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance i. 12 A dome of frost~work..Which shone by moonlight—as the tale is—Like an aurora borealis.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 452 The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps.

aurora septentrionalis n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora borealis

dancing-goats1563

petty dancers1635

streaming1694

north-light1706

aurora borealis1717

dancersc1717

northern morning1717

northern lights1722

aurora septentrionalis1728

northern dawn1728

northern light1728

morris dancers1735

streamers1735

north-shine1738

fire-flaught1787

boreal dawn1805

northern morn1822

firelights1845

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Aurora Borealis, or Aurora Septentrionalis, the Northern Dawn or Light; is an extraordinary Meteor, or luminous Appearence, shewing it self in the Night Time, in the Northern Part of the Heavens.

C2.

aurora flower n.

ΚΠ

1877 H. E. H. King Disciples: Ugo Bassi ii. 65 Filmy aurora-flowers Opened and died in the hour.

aurora-like adj. like the dawn, like the aurora borealis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [adjective] > like the dawn

aurora-likea1586

auroral1827

the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [adverb] > aurora borealis

aurora-like1879

aurorally1882

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xi. sig. V6^v Aurora like new out of bed.

1879 W. H. G. Kingston Austral. Abroad iii. 24 Rays of light seemed, aurora-like, to shoot out from its crown.

aurora-parrot n. the species Psittacus Aurora.

aurora-pole n. one of the two points on the surface of the earth which form the centres of the luminous circles of the aurora borealis and australis.

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the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > pole > aurora

aurora-pole1881

1881 tr. Nordenskiöld's Voy. Vega II. xi. 40 A luminous crown..whose centre, ‘the aurora-pole,’ lies somewhat under the earth's surface, a little north of the magnetic-pole.

aurora-snake n.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	aurora
释义	auroran. /ɒˈrɔːrə//ɔːˈrɔːrə//əˈrɔːrə/ Etymology: Latin; = dawn, goddess of the dawn, orient. Rarely in French form aurore. 1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 430/4 On the thyrd nyght after, nygh the rysyng of aurora. 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 57 I may call it Lumen crepusculinum, the Aurora of the moon. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 124 The Antarctick Oriency of a Western Aurore. 2. personified, The (Roman) goddess of the dawn, represented as rising with rosy fingers from the saffron-coloured bed of Tithonus. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities Plutoc1330 Herculesc1369 Proteusa1425 Tellusc1425 chaosa1522 grace1538 terminus1565 victory1569 Hymena1593 harvest queen1598 Hades1599 aurora1610 puffer1615 Egeria1624 hour1637 Hygeia1737 Kore1844 Nike1846 vintage-god1873 1610 W. Baldwin et al. in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. i. 6 Sweete Aurora. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 31 Zephir with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 1 Aurora now, fair Daughter of the Dawn. 3. figurative. The beginning, the early period; poetic for ‘rise,’ ‘dawn,’ ‘morn,’ in same figurative sense. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. xi. 217 The virtues which had so brilliantly illuminated the aurora of their church. 1859 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 27 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vi. 497 An aurora of mirth, which probably will not be very exuberant in its noontide. 4. poetic. The East, the Orient. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] eastwardeOE eastc1175 sunrisinga1382 orientc1385 sun-springa1400 eastwarda1450 eastwards?1574 sunristc1600 rising sun1613 aurora1617 morn1647 moonrise1728 morning-land1838 dawning1879 1617 W. Drummond Forth Feasting sig. B1^v They make the Scythian them adore, The Gaditan the Souldier of Aurore. 5. A luminous atmospheric phenomenon, now considered to be of electrical character, occurring in the vicinity of, or radiating from, the earth's northern or southern magnetic pole, and visible from time to time by night over more or less of the adjoining hemisphere, or even of the earth's surface generally; popularly called the Northern (or Southern) Lights, merry-dancers, streamers, etc.The northern lights, being alone conspicuous in Europe, had from the earliest periods various popular names in the northern languages; they began to attract scientific attention early in the 17th cent., and were described by Gassendi in 1621 (see quot. 1822 for aurora borealis n. at Compounds 1) under the descriptive appellation of aurora borealis or ‘northern dawn’, their simplest form suggesting the appearance of dawn or approaching sunrise on the northern horizon; this appellation (occasionally varied as aurora septentrionalis) passed into general scientific use. On the recognition of similar phenomena in the antarctic regions, these were called aurora australis or ‘southern lights’; whence aurora came to be used generically as the proper term for the phenomenon, without any thought of ‘dawn,’ and with English plural auroras; and this has become the ordinary prose meaning of aurora, the preceding senses being only poetical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora aurora1717 1717 [see aurora borealis n. at Compounds 1]. 1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 425 Last, she sublimes th' Aurora of the Poles, The flashing elements of Female Souls. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xiv. 216 There was an aurora at night. 1855 Scoffern Pract. Meteorol. 98 After 1790 auroras became unfrequent, but since 1825 they have been on the increase. 1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 37 The appearance of auroras is invariably accompanied by magnetic irregularities. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 211 Lit up by auroræ and long lingering twilights. 1874 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 6) 359 In air rarefied by the air-pump an aurora or discharge of five or six inches long could be obtained. 6. The colour of the sky at the point of sun-rise; a rich orange hue. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > orange > [noun] > deep orange aurora1791 mandarin orange1877 Tangerine1899 tango1913 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. §4. iv. 273 For silks to be dyed of an aurora or orange colour. 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 189 If an orange, or an aurora be required. 1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 33 Orange-reds, such as scarlet, nacarat, and aurora. 7. Used as the popular or trivial name of various species of animals, as of a monkey ( Chrysothrix sciurea), a sea-anemone, and as the fancy name of varieties of various flowers, e.g. of a ranunculus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Saimiri (squirrel monkey) monkey squirrel1674 squirrel monkey1773 aurora1774 saimiri1774 sakawinki1954 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of sea-nettle1601 red nettle1611 sea-spout1731 anemone1742 sea-anemone1742 sea-mushroom1742 sea-pudding1750 actinia1752 sea-carnation1768 sea star-flower1768 sea-sunflower1768 sea-daisya1776 sea-marigolda1776 sea-torchthistlea1776 insect-flower1791 sea-flower1850 aurora1858 actiniarian1874 actinian1876 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 236 The last..of the monkies that hold by the tail is the Samiri, or Aurora; which is the smallest and most beautiful of all. 1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. Index. Compounds C1. See sense 5. aurora australis n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora australis aurora australis1744 southern lights1773 1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 744 (title) An account of the Aurora Australis observed at Rome, January 27, 1740. aurora borealis n. (also transferred). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora borealis dancing-goats1563 petty dancers1635 streaming1694 north-light1706 aurora borealis1717 dancersc1717 northern morning1717 northern lights1722 aurora septentrionalis1728 northern dawn1728 northern light1728 morris dancers1735 streamers1735 north-shine1738 fire-flaught1787 boreal dawn1805 northern morn1822 firelights1845 1717 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 584 On February the 5th, 1716–7, at Eight at Night, an Aurora Borealis appeared. 1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton I. 131 She was eclipsed by an Aurora Borealis in the matrimonial sphere. 1822 Burrowes Cycl. (at cited word) On Sept. 2nd, 1621, the same phenomenon was seen all over France; and it was particularly described by Gassendus in his Physics, who gave it the name of aurora borealis. 1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance i. 12 A dome of frost~work..Which shone by moonlight—as the tale is—Like an aurora borealis. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 452 The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps. aurora septentrionalis n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora borealis dancing-goats1563 petty dancers1635 streaming1694 north-light1706 aurora borealis1717 dancersc1717 northern morning1717 northern lights1722 aurora septentrionalis1728 northern dawn1728 northern light1728 morris dancers1735 streamers1735 north-shine1738 fire-flaught1787 boreal dawn1805 northern morn1822 firelights1845 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Aurora Borealis, or Aurora Septentrionalis, the Northern Dawn or Light; is an extraordinary Meteor, or luminous Appearence, shewing it self in the Night Time, in the Northern Part of the Heavens. C2. aurora flower n. ΚΠ 1877 H. E. H. King Disciples: Ugo Bassi ii. 65 Filmy aurora-flowers Opened and died in the hour. aurora-like adj. like the dawn, like the aurora borealis. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [adjective] > like the dawn aurora-likea1586 auroral1827 the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [adverb] > aurora borealis aurora-like1879 aurorally1882 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xi. sig. V6^v Aurora like new out of bed. 1879 W. H. G. Kingston Austral. Abroad iii. 24 Rays of light seemed, aurora-like, to shoot out from its crown. aurora-parrot n. the species Psittacus Aurora. aurora-pole n. one of the two points on the surface of the earth which form the centres of the luminous circles of the aurora borealis and australis. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > pole > aurora aurora-pole1881 1881 tr. Nordenskiöld's Voy. Vega II. xi. 40 A luminous crown..whose centre, ‘the aurora-pole,’ lies somewhat under the earth's surface, a little north of the magnetic-pole. aurora-snake n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483
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