August

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.

   an august patron of the arts

2. 2
   adj

   Of noble birth.

   an august lineage

3. 3
   verb

   To bring to realization.

   By divine science and cœlestial art / He for the cause of the dear nations toiled, / And augusted man's heavenly hopes that so, / […] / he might, by awful rites / […] / Adhæsion with Divinity achieve.

4. 4
   name

   The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

5. 5
   name

   A female given name from English derived from the month (of birth).

   August, Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a. Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.

6. 6
   name

   A male given name from Latin.

   Thirteen year old August is the eldest; he begins to pull the kite downward. Like his sister and brother, June and July, he has been named after the month in which he was born.

7. 7
   adj

   profoundly honored

8. 8
   adj

   of or befitting a lord

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-der. Latin augustus Latin Augustusder. Old English Augustusder. Middle English Augustder. English August Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos (“increase”), from Proto-Italic *augos, from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singin…