the aurora of the Northern Hemisphere.
On the whole there has been much less of the aurora borealis lately than at the beginning of our drift.
Farthest North Fridtjof Nansen
I have it: it’s the aurora borealis; nothing worse, nor more dangerous.
Left on Labrador Charles Asbury Stephens
The aurora borealis painted palpitating color revels on the sky.
The God of His Fathers Jack London
It was the zodiacal light, an aurora borealis on a scale inconceivable!
The Black Star Passes John W Campbell
The month of October this year , seems to have been remarkable for displays of the aurora borealis.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville
Ships will cross the polar seas, thawed beneath the aurora borealis.
Bouvard and Pcuchet Gustave Flaubert
The phenomenon which is commonly called aurora borealis, is in high latitudes frequently seen to the south.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
The aurora borealis there is seen in all its native beauty and grandeur.
The Arctic Whaleman Lewis Holmes
She stood on the balcony and shone as the aurora borealis shines.
A Christmas Greeting Hans Christian Andersen
There was a roar of mighty laughter from the aurora borealis.
Punch’s Almanack for 1890 Various
(sometimes capital) the aurora seen around the North Pole Also called northern lights
1620s, “Northern Lights,” literally “northern dawn,” said to have been coined by French philosopher Petrus Gassendus (1592-1655) after a spectacular display seen in France Sept. 2, 1621; see aurora + boreal. In northern Scotland and among sailors, sometimes called the dancers or the merry dancers.
aurora borealis [(uh-rawr-uh bawr-ee-al-is)]
A display of colored lights in the sky, also called northern lights, caused by the interaction of particles from the sun with the upper atmosphere near the North Pole. A similar display, called the aurora australis, occurs in the atmosphere above the South Pole.
the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn. Compare . (lowercase) . (lowercase) Meteorology. a radiant emission from the upper atmosphere that occurs sporadically over the middle and high latitudes of both hemispheres in the form of luminous bands, streamers, or the like, caused by the bombardment of the atmosphere with charged solar particles that are […]
of or like the dawn. pertaining to the or . Historical Examples The Burneys, however, can do no more for us than shed that auroral dew. The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920 Various Color said to have been the same as that of the auroral glow in the north. […]
- Auroral zone
the region surrounding the north or south geomagnetic pole in which the auroral phenomena take place.
noun a fear of the Northern or Southern Lights Word Origin aurora ‘dawn, streamers of light’