aurorean

[aw-rawr-ee-uhn, aw-rohr-, uh-rawr-, uh-rohr-]

adjective

1. belonging to the dawn; auroral.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aurorean¹

First recorded in 1810–20; auror(a) ( def. ) + -ean

Example Sentences

Sometimes her glimmer rises in the twilight, but it is in the black night of revolutions and of wars that her resplendence blazes forth, and her aurorean dawn becomes the Aurora Borealis.

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