name, noun ·Common ·High school level
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"As faire Aurora in her purple pall, / Out of the East the dawning day doth call […]"
"How will they know! Why, my name is all over them: my silly, unhappy name. Oh, if I had only been christened Mary Jane, or Gladys, Muriel, or Beatrice, or Francesca, or Guinevere, or something quite common. But Aurora! Aurora! I'm the only Aurora in London; and everybody knows it. I believe I'm the only Aurora in the world. And it's so horribly easy to rhyme to it!"
"“Based on our initial investigative work, we believe reports of TdA influence in Aurora are isolated, police said in an August 28 statement."
"The aurora was truly remarkable."
An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.
Common synonyms include: dawn, daybreak, sunrise, alpenglow, arch aurora, aurora australis.
The aurora was truly remarkable.
Pronounced /əˈɹɔɹ.ə/.
From Latin aurōra (“dawn”). Doublet of Eos.
Ultimately from Latin Aurōra. The Philippine placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.