English Dictionary

aureole

/ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/

noun

A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint. / (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something. / (astronomy) A corona.

The golden aureole around her head made her look like an angel.

意味（1）

A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.

The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head.

意味（2）

(by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.

It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]

意味（3）

(astronomy) A corona.

意味（4）

(geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.

Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation.