Usually means: Respected and impressive; grand, majestic.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word August:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. August, august: Merriam-Webster
  2. August, august: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. August, august: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. august: Collins English Dictionary
  5. August, august: Vocabulary.com
  6. August, august: Wordnik
  7. August, august: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. August, august: Wiktionary
  9. august: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. August, august: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. august: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. August, august: Dictionary.com
  13. August, august: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. august: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. August (Elevator album), August (Eric Clapton album), August (Fringe episode), August (Rossner novel), August (Woodward novel), August (band), August (company), August (disambiguation), August (name), August: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. August: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. august: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. August: Rhymezone
  19. August (m), august: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. august: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. August: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. august: FreeDictionary.org
  23. august: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. August: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. august: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. august: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. august: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. august: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. August: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. august: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See augustly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (august)

adjective:  Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
adjective:  Of noble birth.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.
noun:  The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.
noun:  A female given name from English derived from the month (rare modern usage).
noun:  A male given name from Latin.
noun:  A surname from Latin.
noun:  A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
noun:  Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”) [(theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.]

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