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Definition halo
Etymology
From Latin hal?s, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”); itself of unknown origin, see ???? and ?????. Used in English since 1563, sense of light around someone’s head since 1646.
Noun
- A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
- Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
- (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
- The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
- (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
Verb
halo (third-person singular simple present haloes, present participle haloing, simple past and past participle haloed)
- (transitive) To encircle with a halo.
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