halo

halo is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive/intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
2. noun. A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
3. noun. An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
4. noun. A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
5. transitive/intransitive verb. To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
6. noun. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

   Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus

7. noun. a circle of light around the sun or moon
8. noun. a toroidal shape

   "a ring of ships in the harbor"

   "a halo of smoke"

   Synonyms: annulus, doughnut, ring

Synonyms

aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus, annulus, doughnut, ring

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in halo:

hola

Common word forms

halos, haloed, haloes, haloing

Words from these letters

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