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.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɹə/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹ.ə/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.ɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

aura (countable and uncountable, plural aurae or auræ or auras)

1. A subtle emanation or exhalation of any substance, such as an aroma or odour. [from 1732]
2. (figurative, with about, of) A distinctive atmosphere or quality surrounding or associated with something or someone. [from 1859]

   Synonyms: air, feeling, mood, spirit, vibe

   This place has an aura of 19th century Paris.

3. (also parapsychology) A supposed emanation from and surrounding a living person or thing, regarded by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual. [from 1870]
4. (uncountable, Internet slang) The charisma or suave excellence of a person, especially implying their vibe or energy. [from 2020]

   Near-synonym: rizz

   He has insane aura.

   • 2023 December 20, @sugarsmorecake, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     Tht Nigga [Adolf Hitler] has no aura He dress like a medieval Queer

   • 2024 February 26, @lfcemii, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     how can he still have aura even without showing his face

   • 2024 June 2, @opaltaerae, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     this genuinely shocked me omfg his aura is insane 😭

   • 2024 June 3, u/Ship_per, “What's your faves biggest aura loss?”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/kpop_uncensored, archived from the original on 6 June 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 August 2, Annie Aguiar, “Who’s Winning Internet Gold at the Olympics?”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 August 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.

5. (pathology) A subjective sensation experienced at the onset of a neurological condition, especially a migraine headache or epileptic seizure. [from 1780s]
6. A surrounding.
   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80:

     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.

7. (obsolete) A gentle breeze, a zephyr. [late 14th c.–1730s]

• “aura, n.”, in OED Online 👁 Paid subscription required
  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “aura”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• aura in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• “Slang & Trending: aura”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 22 January 2025

• Aaru, Arau

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaw.ɾa]

aura f (plural aures)

1. gentle breeze

   Synonym: ora

2. popularity
3. aura

• “aura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

aura f (plural aure)

1. alternative form of jaura

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.raː/

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• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura f (plural aura's, diminutive auraatje n)

1. aura

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯rɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑurɑ
• Syllabification^(key): au‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): au‧ra

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From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

aura

1. plough, plow (agricultural tool)

   Synonym: kyntöaura

   Isäntä kynti peltoa uudella viisisiipisellä auralla.

   The householder ploughed the field with a new five-blade plough.

2. plough, plow (device used to clear snow)

   Synonym: lumiaura

3. wedge (group of birds flying in a V-shaped formation)
4. (skiing, ski jumping) wedge (pointing the skis inwards to slow down)

• “1. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from Latin aura.

aura

1. aura

• “2. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[7] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• raau, uraa

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁa/, /ɔ.ʁa/

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Borrowed from Latin aura.

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

aura

1. third-person singular future of avoir

• “aura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin aura (“breeze, smell”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒurɒ]
• Hyphenation: au‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

aura (plural aurák)

1. aura

• aura in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From English aura, from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯ra/ [ˈau̯.ra]
• Rhymes: -au̯ra
• Syllabification: au‧ra

aura (plural aura-aura)

1. aura:
   1. an invisible force surrounding a living creature
   2. (medicine) perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache
   3. (medicine) telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure

• “aura”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/
• Rhymes: -awra
• Hyphenation: àu‧ra

aura f (plural aure)

1. aura
2. light breeze

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaːu̯.ra]

aura f (genitive aurae); first declension

1. air
2. breeze
   • 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.3.25–28:

     Ēn ego, nōn paucīs quondam mūnītus amīcīs,
          dum flāvit vēlīs aura secunda meīs,
     ut fera nimbōsō tumuērunt aequora ventō,
          in mediīs lacerā nāve relinquor aquīs.

     Behold me! once supported by many friends—while a favouring breeze filled my sails now that the wild seas have been swelled by the stormy wind, I am abandoned on a shattered bark in the midst of the waters.

First-declension noun.

• āēr
• ventus
• spīritus

• “aura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[8], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • popular favour; popularity: aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
    
  • to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
    
  • a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
    
  • to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    

From Latin aura. Compare Catalan ora, Franco-Provençal oura.

aura f (plural auras)

1. wind, breeze

• aurada
• auratge
• aurejar

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[9], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 90

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aura

1. accusative plural of eyrir
2. genitive plural of eyrir

Learned borrowing from Latin aura. Doublet of jutro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/

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• Rhymes: -awra
• Syllabification: au‧ra

aura f

1. aura (distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something)

   Synonyms: atmosfera, klimat, nastrój

2. (meteorology) weather (distinctive atmosphere)

   Synonym: pogoda

3. (medicine) aura (telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure)
4. (parapsychology) aura, biofield (invisible force surrounding a living creature; supposed field of energy or life force that surrounds or permeates a living thing)

   Synonyms: biopole, pole biologiczne

• aura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of oura, which was inherited.

• Rhymes: -awɾɐ
• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)

• “aura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• ora (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Inherited from Latin aura.

aura f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) weather

• IPA^(key): /ˈauɾa/ [ˈau̯.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -auɾa
• Syllabification: au‧ra

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”).

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

aura f (plural auras)

1. the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like aura, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el aura. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al aura, del aura.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un aura or una aura. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor aura, una buena aura.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el aura única, un(a) aura buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

• “aura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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 aria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯.ra/

aura c

1. aura

• “aura”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “aura”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

aura

1. (Loli) vow, oath, pledge

• Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010), “aura”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat

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