Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Respected and dignified: synonym: grand.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inspiring reverence and admiration; majestic; solemnly grand or stately; sublime; magnificent; imposing.
  • Venerable; worshipful; eminent. =
  • noun The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days, reckoned the first month of autumn in Great Britain, but the last of summer in the United States. See month.
  • To make brown or sunburnt. Evelyn.
  • To ripen; bring to fruition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
  • adjective Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Noble, venerable, majestic, awe-inspiring, often of the highest social class (sometimes used ironically).
  • adjective Of noble birth.
  • verb To make ripe
  • verb To bring to realisation

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or befitting a lord
  • noun the month following July and preceding September
  • adjective profoundly honored

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin augustus; see aug- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin augustus ("majestic, venerable").

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From August

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  • A pretty word when used as an adjective. An awkward-sounding word as a proper noun.

    February 16, 2007

  • As an adjective it sounds like "a gust".

    February 16, 2007

  • I just encountered this word in a crostic puzzle. It was the first time I'd ever seen it used as an adjective. Why didn't they just use "Eighth month" as the clue?

    August 11, 2017