Definition of august
: marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
- her august lineage
- an august mansion
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Examples of august in a Sentence
We visited their august mansion and expansive grounds.
The family claims an august lineage.
Recent Examples of august from the Web
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Leave a Note Out of the hustle-bustle of the city yet only a 20-minute walk from the heart of Dublin, this property, once a Four Seasons hotel, now InterContinental as of 2015, fits in with such august Georgian neighbors as the Royal Dublin Society.
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But the august business broadsheet, which Murdoch pried out of the Bancroft family’s cold, dead hands for a whopping $5 billion in 2007, remains one of Murdoch’s most treasured media assets.
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Trump had bought the august old club an hour’s drive down the west coast from Glasgow in 2014, intending to remodel the club’s facilities in his signature style.
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The august historic preservation group Indiana Landmarks last month showed the works of three street artists, and this weekend a much larger graffiti exhibit opens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.
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It's directed by Anna D. Shapiro, who also staged Letts's august August: Osage County, and boasts a killer nine-member cast—including Kevin Anderson, whose visits to Steppenwolf are few and far between.
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As a candidate, Donald Trump boasted of his lack of government experience and argued his business background qualified him to handle a president’s most august responsibility — handling the nuclear arsenal.
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But of particular interest to me will be the one unfolding in real time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as this august institution tries to right itself after several years of staff unrest, financial mismanagement and overreach.
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His lashing of North Korea was a vigorous restatement of what’s been said by U.S. leaders before, but delivered with new intensity in the august setting of the General Assembly.
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Did You Know?
August comes from the Latin word augustus, meaning "consecrated" or "venerable," which in turn is related to the Latin augur, meaning "consecrated by augury or "auspicious." In 8 B.C. the Roman Senate honored Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, by changing the name of their month "Sextilis" to "Augustus." Middle English speakers inherited the name of the month of August, but it wasn't until the mid-1600s that "august" came to be used generically in English, more or less as "augustus" was in Latin, to refer to someone with imperial qualities.
Origin and Etymology of august
Latin augustus; akin to Latin augur
august Synonyms
Synonyms
dignified, distingué, distinguished, imposing, portly, solemn, staid, statelyAntonyms
flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, silly, undignifiedRelated Words
decorous, proper, seemly; grave, grim, po-faced [British], sober, somber (or sombre); aristocratic, elegant, elevated, handsome, lordly, magisterial, majestic, nobleNear Antonyms
coarse, crass, crude, improper, indecent, uncouth, unseemly, vulgarDefinition of August
: the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar
Examples of august in a Sentence
We are taking our vacation in August.
The last two Augusts have been very dry.
Origin and Etymology of august
Middle English, from Old English, from Latin Augustus, from Augustus Caesar
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Definition of august for Students
: being grand and noble : majestic
- an august university
History for august
The first Roman calendar began the year with March. The sixth month was the one we now know as August. The first Latin name given to this month was Sextilis, derived from sextus, “sixth.” The Romans renamed the month after the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, who first took power on August 19, 43 B.C. Hence the English word August came from the emperor's Latin name, which means literally “worthy of respect.”
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