Corona (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural co·ro·nas, co·ro·nae [kuh-roh-nee]. /kəˈroʊ ni/.
  1. a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, especially around the sun or moon.
  2. such a circle or set of circles having a small radius and ranging in color from blue inside to red outside, attributable to the diffraction caused by thin clouds, mist, or sometimes dust (distinguished from halo).
  3. a faintly luminous envelope outside of the sun's chromosphere, the inner part consisting of highly ionized elements.
  4. a long, straight, untapered cigar, rounded at the closed end.
  5. a crownlike appendage, especially one on the inner side of a corolla, as in the narcissus.
  6. the upper portion or crown of a part, as of the head.
  7. any part or structure suggestive of a crown or curved crown shape.
  8. a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
  9. corona discharge.
  10. the projecting, slablike member of a classical cornice supported by the bed molding or by modillions, dentils, etc., and supporting the cymatium.
  11. the tonsure of a cleric.
  12. a gold-colored stripe around the lower edge of a clerical headdress, as of a miter.
  13. a chandelier of wrought metal, having the form of one or more concentric hoops.
noun
  1. a city in southeastern California.
noun plural -nas or -nae (-niː)
  1. a circle of light around a luminous body, usually the moon
  2. the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere, visible as a faint halo during a solar eclipse
  3. the flat vertical face of a cornice just above the soffit
  4. something resembling a corona or halo
  5. a circular chandelier suspended from the roof of a church
  6. botany
    • the trumpet-shaped part of the corolla of daffodils and similar plants; the crown
    • a crown of leafy outgrowths from inside the petals of some flowers
  7. a crownlike structure, such as the top of the head
  8. the head or upper surface of an animal, such as the body of an echinoid or the disc and arms of a crinoid
  9. a long cigar with blunt ends
  10. physics short for corona discharge
Plural coronas coronae (kə-rō′nē)
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