aureola /ö-rēˈə-lə/ or aureole /öˈrē-ōl/

1. A crown, or an increment to the ordinary blessedness of heaven, gained by virgins, martyrs, and doctors (historical and RC theol)
2. The gold or coloured disc or ring represented around the head in a religious picture, symbolizing glory
3. A glorifying halo (figurative)
4. A halo or corona around the sun or moon, or the clear space within it (meteorology)
5. The coloured rings around the Brocken spectre (meteorology)
6. (erroneously) a halo surrounding the whole figure (eg a vesica piscis)
7. Any halo-like appearance

auˈreoled adjective

Encircled with an aureole

• embroglio
• embroglios
• embroider
• embroidered
• embroiderer
• embroiderers
• embroideries
• embroidering
• embroiders
• embroidery
• embroil
• embroiled
• embroiling
• embroilment
• embroilments
• embroils
• embrown
• embrowned
• embrowning
• embrowns
• embrue
• embrued
• embruement
• embruements
• embrues