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# halo

«halo» in Mova's school dictionary: **A ring or circle of light drawn around the head of a holy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a halo, haloes or halos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ring or circle of light drawn around the head of a holy person or angel in pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#m1)

2) A ring of light around the Sun or Moon, made by ice crystals in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#m2)

3) (informal) Behaviour that makes someone seem perfectly good: «Her halo slipped» = she did something naughty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#m3)

4) A halo can also be a glowing ring of light around something other than a head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In church art and Bible pictures saints and angels have haloes. In science a halo round the Moon is caused by light bending in ice crystals in thin clouds. In everyday talk «his halo slipped» is a joke about a good child behaving badly. Phrases: «a halo around the Moon», «halo effect».

### examples

- The angel in the painting has a golden halo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#x1)
- There was a halo around the Moon last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#x2)
- Ice crystals high in the sky can make a halo around the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#x3)
- My little brother acts like he has a halo, but he ate the cake! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#x4)
- In nativity plays the angels wear tinsel haloes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#x5)
- Presently the background of the hall opened and the tree of knowledge appeared, surrounded by a halo of glory that almost blinded him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/#x6)

### note

Plural: haloes or halos — both accepted. Say HAY-lo. Not «hallo» (hello).

### In the corpora

- [Liking someone a lot can make everything they say sound right; grown-ups call that the halo effect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything/4/)
- [The halo effect is when liking a person makes us believe everything they say.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «halo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.