Halo synonyms

hā'lō

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crown of light
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light (related)
The pathway or route of such illumination to a person:
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nimbus
A radiant light that appears usually in the form of a circle or halo about or over the head in the representation of a god, demigod, saint, or sacred person such as a king or an emperor.
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aura
An invisible emanation or vapor, as the aroma of flowers
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aurora
The dawn
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corona
The luminous irregular envelope of extremely hot and highly ionized gas located outside the chromosphere of the sun.
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aureola
Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.
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mandala
(Buddhism, Hinduism) A circular design containing concentric geometric forms, images of deities, etc. and symbolizing the universe, totality, or wholeness
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anthelion
A luminous, white, diffuse spot occasionally seen in the sky opposite the sun on the parhelic circle.
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aureole
(By extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
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cincture
A belt or sash, especially one worn with an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a monk or nun.
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circle
The definition of a circle is a curved line that is the same distance from the center all the way around and connects at the point where it began.
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crown
An artificial substitute for the natural crown of a tooth.
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gloria
A musical setting for either of these doxologies.
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glory
Adoration, praise, and thanksgiving offered in worship.
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glow
A light given off as the result of great heat; incandescence
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ring
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
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vesica piscis
A pointed oval shape used in medieval Christian art as an aureole to surround a sacred figure.
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annulus
A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure.
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anchor ring
a toroidal shape
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orb (related)
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22o (related)
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starburst (related)
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blob (related)
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doughnut
Something whose form is reminiscent of a ring-shaped cake.
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radiance
The quality or state of being radiant; brightness
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Halo Sentence Examples

  • The angel Jeffrey's halo may be rusty.

  • The heads are surrounded with a kind of head-dress or halo and one wears a necklace.

  • A Brescian friar relates that a halo of light was seen to flash round his head, and the citizens remembered his awful prophecies when in 1512 their town was put to the sack by Gaston de Foix.

  • In that world some structure was still being erected and did not fall, something was still stretching out, and the candle with its red halo was still burning, and the same shirtlike sphinx lay near the door; but besides all this something creaked, there was a whiff of fresh air, and a new white sphinx appeared, standing at the door.

  • Less brilliant are the parhelia of the outer halo.

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