halo
Other forms: halos; haloes
A glowing light that circles something, like the moon or a person's head is a halo. Painters of religious art often put a halo around the heads of angels and saints.
A halo is a symbol of holiness, represented by a circle or arc of light around the head of a saint or holy person. Any circle of light can be described as a halo, even in a non-religious context; sometimes you'll see a glowing halo of light around the moon, for example. The word halo also means "glory or majesty," a symbolic halo rather than a physical one. The Greek halos means "ring of light around the sun or moon."
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a circle of light around the sun or moontypes:parhelic circle, parhelic ring, solar haloa luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmospheretype of:atmospheric phenomenona physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
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an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
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a toroidal shape“a halo of smoke”synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, ringtypes:fairy circle, fairy ringa ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the myceliumtype of:toroidthe doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus
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