aurorean
Valid in Scrabble
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
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/ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/(UK)
Definition of aurorean
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
“1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.”
“Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:”
“1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300, […] There, hover’d in light, That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright And Aurorean clouds, […]”
“When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,”
“1896, George Santayana, Sonnet 50 in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Stone and Kimball, p. 54, Though no dawn burst, and no aurorean choir Sing GLORIA DEO when the heavens ope,”
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adj
-
Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
“1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.”
“Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:”
“1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300, […] There, hover’d in light, That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright And Aurorean clouds, […]”
“When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,”
“1896, George Santayana, Sonnet 50 in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Stone and Kimball, p. 54, Though no dawn burst, and no aurorean choir Sing GLORIA DEO when the heavens ope,”
- Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
- Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.
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