Word Meanings - AURORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

Related words: (words related to AURORAL)

• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• BLUSH
  1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless
• BLUSHLESS
  Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
• AURORA
  The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. (more info) 1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day;
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BLUSHINGLY
  In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• NORTHERNER
  1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner.
• SUFFUSION
  A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds. (more info) 1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice,
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• BLUSHET
  A modest girl. B. Jonson.
• BLUSHER
  One that blushes.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• AURORAL
  Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• NORTHERNLY
  Northerly. Hakewill.
• LIGHTSTRUCK
  Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.
• COSTON LIGHTS
  Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.
• DELIGHTSOME
  Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.