Aureole vs. Halo — What's the Difference?

A circular or oval light surrounding the head or body of a representation of a deity or holy person; a halo.

A circle of light shown around or above the head of a saint or holy person to represent their holiness.

(Astronomy) See corona.

A circle of white or coloured light around the sun, moon, or other luminous body caused by refraction through ice crystals in the atmosphere.

A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.

Surround with or as if with a halo

(by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.

A luminous ring or disk of light surrounding the heads or bodies of sacred figures, such as saints, in religious paintings; a nimbus.

(astronomy) A corona.

A ring or disk resembling the halo of a sacred figure

(geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.

A feeling of glory, reverence, or admiration associated with a person or thing

The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse

A circular band of colored light around a light source, as around the sun or moon, caused by the refraction and reflection of light by ice particles suspended in the intervening atmosphere.

An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

A roughly spherical region of relatively dust-free space surrounding a galaxy and extending beyond the visible parts of the galaxy. Galactic halos contain stars (often located in globular clusters), gas, and dark matter.

To encircle with a halo.

A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

(astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.

Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.

(religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.

The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.

(advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.

A circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head

(medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.

(motorsport) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.

(automotive) halo headlight

(transitive) To encircle with a halo.

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.

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.

An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

A toroidal shape;

A circle of light around the sun or moon