aurora australis

1. 1.

   the aurora of the southern hemisphere

   Synonymssouthern lights

   Broaderaurora

Questions about aurora australis

What does aurora australis mean?

aurora australis means "the aurora of the southern hemisphere".

What is another word for aurora australis?

Close synonyms include southern lights. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aurora australis a common word?

aurora australis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.