aurora
/awror / • noun (pl. auroras or aurorae /awroree/) the northern lights (aurora borealis /borriayliss/) or southern lights (aurora australis /awstrayliss/), streamers of coloured light seen in the sky near the earth’s magnetic poles. — ORIGIN Latin, ‘dawn, goddess of the dawn’.
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