noun1. (esp in paintings of Christian saints and the deity) a border of light or radiance enveloping the head or sometimes the whole of a figure represented as holy
2. a less common word for halo
3. another name for corona (sense 2)
Word origin
C13: from Old French
auréole, from Medieval Latin (
corōna)
aureola golden (crown), from Latin
aureolus golden, from
aurum gold