"halo" Definition

Definitions for the word "halo" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t. & i.
To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
(pl. -es) 1 disc or circle of light shown surrounding the head of a sacred person. 2 glory associated with an idealized person etc. 3 circle of white or coloured light round a luminous body, esp. The sun or moon. v. (-es, -ed) surround with a halo. [greek halos threshing-floor, disc of the sun or moon]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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