aura – English noun declension

English noun forms of aura

Noun: aura
Singularaura
Pluralaurae; auræ; auras

Sample Sentences

  • Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which well nigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze. [1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume II, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the third (The Rally), page 38:]
  • This place has an aura of 19th century Paris.
  • His latest successes have endued him with an aura of invincibility.
  • One might subsume the eliminated element in the term “aura” and go on to say: that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. [1936, Harry Zohn, transl., The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, translation of Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit by Walter Benjamin:]
  • Darwinism and related theories in anthropology and sociology helped to give an aura of respectability to racism in both Europe and America. [1993 [1972], Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America:]
  • Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, […]. [1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:]
  • Near-synonym: rizz
  • He has insane aura.
  • Tht Nigga [Adolf Hitler] has no aura He dress like a medieval Queer [2023 December 20, @sugarsmorecake, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024:]
  • how can he still have aura even without showing his face [2024 February 26, @lfcemii, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024:]
  • this genuinely shocked me omfg his aura is insane 😭 [2024 June 2, @opaltaerae, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024:]
  • My fav aura losses are rm exposing Taehyun Infront^([sic]) of jongkook, Yeonjun hugging the air while coi leray was hugging Beomgyu, huening doing that one dance in front of the ladies and everyone at the GDA(correct me if I'm wrong)lol [2024 June 3, u/Ship_per, “What's your faves biggest aura loss?”, in Reddit, r/kpop_uncensored, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024:]
  • A clip of Kim stoically shooting at a competition in May spread exponentially online after her Olympic appearance, with posts citing her “aura,” current slang for an aspirational level of cool. [2024 August 2, Annie Aguiar, “Who’s Winning Internet Gold at the Olympics?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2024:]
  • It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly. [1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80:]

Nouns inflected like aura

supernova, aura,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
4. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsr̥h₂
6. Proto-Hellenic *auhrā
7. Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra)bor.
8. Latin aurabor.
9. English aura
10. Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of east, auster, air, and aria. The slang sense originated in the early 2020s and was popularized on TikTok around May 2024. See: Latin Nouns 'aura', Ancient Greek Nouns 'αὔρα'.