southern lights

1. 1.

   the aurora of the southern hemisphere

   Synonymsaurora australis

   Broaderaurora

Questions about southern lights

What does southern lights mean?

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

What is another word for southern lights?

Close synonyms include aurora australis. 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 southern lights a common word?

southern 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.