Glory vs. Halo — What's the Difference?

Great honor, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent; renown.

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

Something conferring honor or renown.

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 highly praiseworthy asset

Surround with or as if with a halo

Adoration, praise, and thanksgiving offered in worship.

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

Majestic beauty and splendor; resplendence

A ring or disk resembling the halo of a sacred figure

The splendor and bliss of heaven; perfect happiness.

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

A height of achievement, enjoyment, or prosperity

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.

A halo, nimbus, or aureole. Also called gloriole.

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 rejoice triumphantly; exult

To encircle with a halo.

Great beauty and splendor.

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.

Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.

(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.

That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.

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

Worship or praise.

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

An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.

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

Victory; success.

(advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.

An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

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

(theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.

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

(obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

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

To exult with joy; to rejoice.

(automotive) halo headlight

To boast; to be proud.

(transitive) To encircle with a halo.

To shine radiantly.

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.

Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.

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.

That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.

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

Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.

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

An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

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

To exult with joy; to rejoice.

A toroidal shape;

To boast; to be proud.

A circle of light around the sun or moon

A state of high honor;

Brilliant radiant beauty;

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

Rejoice proudly