aurora borealis

1. 1.

   the aurora of the northern hemisphere

   Synonymsnorthern lights

   Broaderaurora

Questions about aurora borealis

What does aurora borealis mean?

aurora borealis means "the aurora of the northern hemisphere".

What is another word for aurora borealis?

Close synonyms include northern 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 borealis a common word?

aurora borealis 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.