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Meanings of arctic lights in English

A natural light display in the sky particularly in the Arctic regions.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "aurora borealis"
        Examples for "aurora borealis"
        1
        Also known as the aurora borealis, the Northern Lights are notoriously coy.
        BBC
        2
        That night there was a most beautiful display of the aurora borealis.
        Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
        3
        But nothing equals a first-class field night of the mysterious aurora borealis.
        Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River Indians
        4
        The very elements seemed to be one aurora borealis with continued lightning.
        "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
        5
        They danced and twisted like the aurora borealis on a winter night.
        Revival
        1
        The northern lights waved overhead in a restless ocean of rose-tinted fire.
        Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
        2
        But witches say the sky is thin there, behind the northern lights.
        The subtle knife
        3
        The northern lights were hidden, and not even a star was visible.
        The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
        4
        Then came night and the stars-brightnorthern lights-brightmoon-shadows on the tent-dreams.
        A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
        5
        We'll start down the beach until the northern lights begin to show.
        Fanny Herself