northern lights

1. 1.

   the aurora of the northern hemisphere

   Synonymsaurora borealis

   Broaderaurora

Questions about northern lights

What does northern lights mean?

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

What is another word for northern lights?

Close synonyms include aurora borealis. 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 northern lights a common word?

northern lights 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.