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au⋅ra

  [awr-uh]
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–noun, plural au⋅ras or, for 3, au⋅rae  [awr-ee] .
1. a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere: an aura of respectability; an aura of friendliness.
2. a subtly pervasive quality or atmosphere seen as emanating from a person, place, or thing.
3. Pathology. a sensation, as of lights or a current of warm or cold air, preceding an attack of migraine or epilepsy.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L < Gk: breath (of air)
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Au⋅ra

  [awr-uh]
–noun Classical Mythology.
a companion of Artemis who bore twins to Dionysus. Zeus changed her into a spring because, in a fit of madness, she had killed one of her children.
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au·ra   (ôr'ə)   
n.   pl. au·ras or au·rae (ôr'ē)

  1. An invisible breath, emanation, or radiation.

  2. A distinctive but intangible quality that seems to surround a person or thing; atmosphere: An aura of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters.

  3. Pathology A sensation, as of a cold breeze or a bright light, that precedes the onset of certain disorders, such as an epileptic seizure or an attack of migraine.


[Middle English, gentle breeze, from Latin, from Greek aurā, breath; see wer-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

aura 
1859, "subtle emanation around living beings;" earlier "gentle breeze" (1398), from L. aura "breeze, wind, air," from Gk. aura "breath, breeze," from PIE base *awer-.
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Main Entry: au·ra
Pronunciation: 'or-&
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural auras also au·rae /-E/
: a subjective sensation (as of voices or colored lights or crawling and numbness) experienced before an attack of some nervous disorders (as epilepsy or migraine)
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aura au·ra (ôr'ə)
n. pl. au·ras or au·rae (ôr'ē)
A sensation, as of a cold breeze or a bright light, that precedes the onset of certain disorders, such as an epileptic seizure or an attack of migraine.

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