Usually means: Natural light display in sky.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word aurora:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. Aurora, aurora: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Aurora, Aurora, aurora: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Aurora, Aurora, aurora: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aurora: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Aurora, aurora: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aurora, aurora: Wordnik
  7. Aurora, aurora: Wiktionary
  8. Aurora: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Aurora: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Aurora: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. aurora: Dictionary.com
  12. aurora: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. AURORA, Aurora (Angela Chang album), Aurora (Asawa), Aurora (Asia EP), Aurora (Asia album), Aurora (Aurora album), Aurora (Bada album), Aurora (Bea Miller album), Aurora (Ben Frost album), Aurora (Breaking Benjamin album), Aurora (Christian band), Aurora (Disney), Aurora (Disney character), Aurora (Esmerine album), Aurora (Foo Fighters song), Aurora (Guido Reni), Aurora (Jean-Luc Ponty album), Aurora (Metra station), Aurora (Nico Touches the Walls album), Aurora (Susumu Hirasawa album), Aurora (TV series), Aurora (Turin), Aurora (Vicetone EP), Aurora (aircraft), Aurora (airline), Aurora (album), Aurora (astronomy), Aurora (band), Aurora (character), Aurora (comics), Aurora (cruiser), Aurora (disambiguation), Aurora (electronica band), Aurora (given name), Aurora (goddess), Aurora (heraldry), Aurora (literary journal), Aurora (mythology), Aurora (novel), Aurora (opera), Aurora (pen manufacturer), Aurora (protocol), Aurora (province), Aurora (punk band), Aurora (sculpture), Aurora (singer), Aurora (telenovela), Aurora (tone poem), Aurora (train), Aurora (typeface), Aurora (university network), Aurora: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Aurora: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. aurora: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Aurora: Rhymezone
  17. Aurora: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. aurora: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. aurora: Free Dictionary
  20. aurora: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Aurora, aurora: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. Aurora: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Aurora: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aurora (disambiguation), aurora: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Aurora: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Aurora (astronomy), Aurora (disambiguation), aurora: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. aurora: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Aurora: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  3. Aurora: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  4. Aurora: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. aurora: Nine Planets Glossary
  6. AURORA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See aurorae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Aurora)

noun:  An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.
noun:  (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of the dawn; equivalent of the Greek Eos. Sister of Luna and Sol.
noun:  A female given name from Latin, in regular use since the 19th century.
noun:  (astronomy) 94 Aurora, a main belt asteroid.
noun:  (naval) the Russian cruiser Aurora, a cruiser of Soviet Navy.
noun:  (poetic) the dawn
noun:  A town in Ontario, Canada; named for the goddess.
noun:  A town in Western Cape, South Africa; named for the goddess.
noun:  A town in Suriname.
noun:  A province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines; named after First Lady Aurora Quezon. Capital: Baler.
noun:  A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
noun:  A historical district of Turin, Italy.
noun:  A locale in Brazil.
noun:  A municipality of Ceará.
noun:  A municipality of Santa Catarina.
noun:  A locale in the Philippines.
noun:  A town in Isabela.
noun:  A town in Zamboanga del Sur; named after Aurora Quezon.
noun:  A locale in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in California.
noun:  A city in Colorado; named for the goddess.
noun:  A city mainly in DuPage County and Kane County, Illinois, and suburb of Chicago; named for the goddess.
noun:  A city in Indiana; named for the goddess.
noun:  A city in Iowa; named for the village of East Aurora, New York.
noun:  A city in Kansas; named for the city in Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
noun:  A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.
noun:  A town in Maine; named for the goddess.
noun:  A city in Minnesota.
noun:  A city in Missouri; named for the goddess.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Nebraska; named for the city in Illinois.
noun:  A ghost town in Nevada; named for the goddess.
noun:  A village in Cayuga County, New York.
noun:  A town in Erie County, New York.
noun:  A town in North Carolina.
noun:  A city in Ohio.
noun:  A city in Oregon; named for the daughter of the founder, Prussian-American mystic William Keil.
noun:  A town in South Dakota; named for the city in Illinois.
noun:  A city in Texas.
noun:  A city in Utah; named for the aurora borealis seen in the area.
noun:  A census-designated place in West Virginia.
noun:  A town in Florence County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Washington County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A ghost town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
noun:  (historical) Maewo (an island in Vanuatu)
noun:  (historical) Makatea (an island in French Polynesia)

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