halo

ha·lo  (hl)

n. pl. ha·los or ha·loes

1.

a. A circular band of colored light around a light source, as around the sun or moon, caused by the refraction and reflection of light by ice particles suspended in the intervening atmosphere.

b. Something resembling this band.

2. A luminous ring or disk of light surrounding the heads or bodies of sacred figures, such as saints, in religious paintings; a nimbus.

3. The aura of majesty or glory surrounding a person or thing that is regarded with reverence, awe, or sentiment.

tr.v. ha·loed, ha·lo·ing, ha·loes

To encircle with or as if with a halo.

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[Medieval Latin hal, from accusative of Latin hals, from Greek, threshing floor, disk of or around the sun or moon.]

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halo [hay-loh]

Noun

pl -loes or -los

1. a ring of light around the head of a sacred figure

2. a circle of refracted light around the sun or moon

Verb

-loes or -los, [-loing, -loed]

to surround with a halo [Greek halōs circular threshing floor]

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halo  (hl)

A hazy ring of colored light in the sky around the Sun, Moon, or a similar bright object. A halo is caused by the reflection and refraction of light through atmospheric ice crystals.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	halo - an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint gloriole, aura, aureole, nimbus, glory lightness, light - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark"
	2.	halo - a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, ring fairy circle, fairy ring - a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium toroid - the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus
	3.	halo - a circle of light around the sun or moon atmospheric phenomenon - a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere parhelic circle, parhelic ring, solar halo - a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere

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halo

noun ring of light, aura, corona, radiance, nimbus, halation Photography aureole or aureola

Translations

halo [ˈheɪləu] n [of saint] → aureola

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halo [ˈheɪləu] n [of saint etc] → auréole f [of sun]; halo m

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halo [ˈheɪləu] n → Heiligenschein m;

(circle of light) → Hof m

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halo [ˈheɪləu] n [of saint etc] → aureola; [of sun] → alone m