aurorean
/ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
adj
Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:"
- "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, […]"
- "When the earliest dews impearled The front of all the world Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,"
- "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,"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/
Inflected Forms
more aurorean (comparative)
most aurorean (superlative)