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halo
/ˈheɪloʊ/
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What does halo mean?
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.
- 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.
More meanings (15)
noun
- 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.
- The bias caused by the halo effect.
- a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
- A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
- A roll bar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
- Ellipsis of halo headlight.
- (slang) The anabolic steroid fluoxymesterone, also known as Halotestin.
- Acronym of high altitude, low opening (“a type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude”).
- Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
- Acronym of high altitude, low orbiting.
- Acronym of heavy assets, low obsolescence (“AI-resistant stocks”).
- (informal) A member of the Angels Major League Baseball team.
- Alternative letter-case form of HALO.
verb
- To encircle with a halo.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈheɪloʊ/
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There was a halo about it, engirdling rich, flowing waves of reddish hair, the lights in which glowed like flame.
With features more than usually attractive, softened by a halo of waving, silvery hair, she was but a mushy bog of misery.
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“Why,” he said, in his ordinary tone of voice, “look at the moon. There’s a halo round the moon. We shall have rain to-morrow.”
In his youth his conduct was rather dissolute, but irreproachable and almost holy in his latter days—a kind of halo surrounded his old brow.
Her dress was white with down and fluff, and her front hair, escaping from under the handkerchief, was adorned with a veritable halo of feathers.