AUGUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does August mean? 

• AUGUST (noun)
  The noun AUGUST has 1 sense:

1. the month following July and preceding September

  Familiarity information: AUGUST used as a noun is very rare.

• AUGUST (adjective)
  The adjective AUGUST has 2 senses:

1. of or befitting a lord

2. profoundly honored

  Familiarity information: AUGUST used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUGUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following July and preceding September

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Aug; August

Hypernyms ("August" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "August"):

Assumption; Assumption of Mary; August 15 (celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church)

Dormition; Feast of Dormition (celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th)

mid-August (the middle part of August)

Holonyms ("August" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

• AUGUST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or befitting a lord

Synonyms:

august; grand; lordly

Context example:

of august lineage

Similar:

noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Profoundly honored

Synonyms:

august; revered; venerable

Context example:

revered holy men

Similar:

honorable; honourable (worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect)

 Context examples 

The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest outbreak in history, with more than 3,600 infections and 1,800 deaths as of the end of August, according to the World Health Organization.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

The exoplanet was discovered in August 2016 about 4.2 light years from Earth.

(Simulations show planet orbiting Proxima Centauri could have liquid water, Wikinews)

On 4 August 2019, French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crossed the English Channel on a jet-powered freeflight flying device propelled by turbines and attached to his feet, called Flyboard Air.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

The p. macrocarpa produces 3-to-5-inch fruit that are ripe from May through August.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Five new modENCODE papers appeared in Nature on August 28, 2014.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)

This milestone marks a 50 percent increase in the number of known NEAs since 2013, when discoveries reached 10,000 in August of that year.

(The 2016 TB57 asteroid will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31, NASA)

The August 27 flyby was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

Then, after two large storms went across the Arctic basin in August, sea ice melt picked up speed through early September.

(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)

The Thematic Mapper on Landsat 5 acquired the top image on August 22, 1987; the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 captured the bottom image on August 13, 2013.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

Since August 11, Uranus has been in retrograde, so this likely means that you’ve been working hard but possibly not seeing results commensurate to your efforts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)