Definition of August

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August

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.

The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

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August Quotations

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
Satchel Paige

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Steven Tyler

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
Garth Brooks

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
William Bligh

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
Calamity Jane

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.
Tony Visconti

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
Chris Matthews

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
Gloria Swanson

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
Leslie Fiedler

August Translations

August in Afrikaans is Augustus
August in Danish is august
August in Dutch is oogstmaand, augustus
August in Finnish is elokuu
august in German is August {m}, erhaben
august in Hungarian is magasztos, augusztus
August in Italian is agosto
August in Norwegian is august
August in Portuguese is Agosto
August in Spanish is agosto, augusto
August in Swedish is augusti

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