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aurorean

adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/

1

adj

Meaning 1

Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.
  • 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, [...]
  • 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,

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: auroral, dawnlike, dilucular, eoan

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective

Meaning 4

characteristic of the dawn

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a dim auroral glow

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: auroral

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.

Across languages

Translations

1 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Welsh: awroraidd — belonging to or resembling the dawn