aura: Meaning and Definition of

au•ra

1. a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere: an aura of respectability; an aura of friendliness.
2. a subtly pervasive quality or atmosphere seen as emanating from a person, place, or thing.
3. a sensation, as of lights or a current of warm or cold air, preceding an attack of migraine or epilepsy.

Au•ra

1. a companion of Artemis who bore twins to Dionysus. Zeus changed her into a spring because, in a fit of madness, she had killed one of her children.