Definitions of aurora

1. ( Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos

2. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

3. The rise, dawn, or beginning.

4. 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.

5. A species of crowfoot.

6. The aurora borealis or aurora australis ( northern or southern lights).

7. The rising light of the morning; the dawn or dayspring.

8. The dawn: in poetry, the goddess of dawn.

9. The goddess of morning; the dawning light.

10. A brilliant nocturnal radiance of the sky, in northern latitudes called aurora borealis or northern lights, in southern latitudes called aurora australis or southern lights.

11. The glow of early morning; dawn.

12. The Roman goddess of dawn.

13. The goddess of the morning or dawn; the rising light of the morning. Aurora borealis, the northern aurora, an extraordinary luminous appearance or meteor frequently visible in northern latitudes, which usually appears in streams of light ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line a few degrees above the horizon; the northern lights or streamers. The Aurora australis, a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere.

14. The rising light of the morning; the plant crowfoot.

15. Auroral.