aureole

English Thesaurus

1. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	light, lightness,
definition	:	the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures (noun.attribute)

2. the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse (noun.phenomenon)

hypernym	:	glow, glowing, radiance,
definition	:	the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface (noun.phenomenon)

part meronym	:	nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud,
definition	:	a dark grey cloud bearing rain (noun.object)