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AUGUST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following July and preceding September
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Profoundly honored
Example:
revered holy men
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honorable; honourable (worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or befitting a lord
Example:
of august lineage
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noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Context examples:
Scientists had been regularly tracking the star, called NGC 2547-ID8, when it surged with a huge amount of fresh dust between August 2012 and January 2013.
(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)
In August 2015, NIH surprisingly ended the trial early after initial results showed that 3.3 years of intensive treatment significantly reduced the rates of death and cardiovascular disease.
(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)
J Am Coll Cardiol, 2007; 50:1-157, doi:10.1016/j. jacc.2007.02.013 (Published online 6 August 2007).
(Atypical Coronary Artery Disease Symptom, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Derived by Curtiss and Dunning (1926) at Columbia University by crossing an inbred August rat with an inbred Copenhagen rat, to Heston (1945) and then to the NIH in 1950.
(ACI/Seg, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
The meteor shower, which occurs each year in July or August, will see hundreds of meteors pass through the sky in an event that will be visible around the world.
(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)
The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Perchance you have yourself set eyes upon his august face?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, I chose August for the word, and 1914 for the figures, and here we are.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Since late August, the Cosmic Ray Subsystem instrument on Voyager 2 has measured about a 5 percent increase in the rate of cosmic rays hitting the spacecraft compared to early August.
(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)
The next of each type visible from Mars will be Mercury in April 2015, Venus in August 2030 and Earth in November 2084.
(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)
