august
//ɔːˈɡʌst//
Forms
- Comparative
- auguster
- Superlative
- augustest
- Plural
- augusts
Definitions
1.Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
- The commands of the august sovereign are the imperial commands, or the phœnix (the incomparable) mandate.
- Countless proposals flooded in, sent by sources as august as the World Academy of Sciences and as humble as elementary schools.
- For once the story was not about Jamie Vardy, unable to equal Jimmy Dunne's top-flight record of scoring in a dozen consecutive games, but about his august deputy Riyad Mahrez.
2.Of noble birth.
- A branch of the house of Lorraine, in comparison with which even the royal race of Capet was mean, the Guises traced back their august lineage through a long line of warrior princes to the Imperial figure of Charlemagne.
1.Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”).
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1520
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”), from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”).
Doublet of August and Augustus.