august
adjective
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Adjective
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noun
Synonyms & Antonyms for august
Synonyms: Adjective
dignified, distingué, distinguished, imposing, portly, solemn, staid, stately
Antonyms: Adjective
flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, silly, undignified
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Examples of august in a Sentence
Adjective
We visited their august mansion and expansive grounds. The family claims an august lineage.Noun
We are taking our vacation in August. The last two Augusts have been very dry.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
After my windshield was shattered in a Princeton hailstorm, I was led to a shop in a less august town, where, with the coordination of surgeons, young men my age replaced the curving glass. — Mark Helprin, National Review, "Everyday Americans: Unknown Unknowns," 22 Aug. 2019 But Leslie West staked a claim as one of the best guitarists in Woodstock's august ranks, raising Mountain's stock exponentially. — Gary Graff, Billboard, "Woodstock at 50: The 12 Best Performances From the 1969 Festival," 14 Aug. 2019 Yet Abernathy stepped up to helm the august organization. — New York Times, "For the Poor People’s Campaign, the Moonshot Was Less Than a Triumph," 16 July 2019 French can take comfort in being in august company. — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, "The Right Liberalism," 11 July 2019 One Twenty-fifth, in Harlem—and couldn’t get access to an august publication like that. — The New Yorker, "Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations," 10 June 2019 Philip, too, could seem a beguiling but remote citadel: august, many-towered, lavishly defended. — Benjamin Taylor, Harper's magazine, "Exit Ghost," 10 Mar. 2019 There are few biologists—and perhaps no microbiologists or cell biologists—who wouldn’t include Carl Woese in this august company. — David P. Barash, WSJ, "‘The Tangled Tree’ Review: From Tiny Seeds," 9 Aug. 2018 Harrison wants readers to imagine themselves in such august company; her adorable illustrations depict all of these figures as a little black girl, an everygirl, in a variety of costumes and backdrops. — Rumaan Alam, New York Times, "Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies," 2 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'august.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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