Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of a golden color; gilded.
  • adjective Inflated and pompous in style.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Golden; gilded; golden-yellow, as a flower.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Golden; gilded.

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  • adjective golden in color or shine
  • adjective characterized by inflated or pompous language

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective elaborately or excessively ornamented
  • adjective having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English aureat, from Late Latin aureātus, from aureus, golden, from aurum, gold.]

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Examples

  • We are apt to associate it with the prolix statements of policy makers and the aureate pomposity of evangelists.

    The Syntax of Style Henry Hitchings 2010

  • Now the city, with all its meaningless wonders, its mind-wracking vistas, and its fantastic inhabitants, was falling behind him; he could relax once more with the spectacle of those calm, magnificent peaks, gilded by the faintly aureate glow of the eternal dawn.

    Tin 2010

  • I conjecture that your professor uses aureate palaver to augment the appraised merit of your edification.

    Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture. 2008

  • Above it were the roller and bee-eater and hoopoe, all fabulously Mediterranean with hot aureate colors that were not, even in the late 1960s, permitted in Britain yet, except under license to the kingfisher.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • And we sit in aureate judgment, in the glow of well-deserved pride, for our rightness has returned rightness, and the criminal has died.

    A Poem Draft 2005

  • And we sit in aureate judgment, in the glow of well-deserved pride, for our rightness has returned rightness, and the criminal has died.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • From them came the gem fires piercing the aureate mists.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • From the flaming crimson center to aureate, flashing penumbra it was instinct with and poured forth power — power vast and conscious.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • Then drawn perhaps by my gaze, she dropped her eyes upon me; golden, translucent, with tiny flecks of amber in their aureate irises, the soul that looked through them was as far removed from that flaming out of the priestess as zenith is above nadir.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Their wide gray irises were flecked with golden amber and sapphire — flecks that shone like clusters of little aureate and azure stars.

    The Metal Monster 2004

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