Usually means: Refined, classical, 18th-century British literature.
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  1. Augustan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Augustan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Augustan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Augustan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Augustan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Augustan: Wordnik
  7. Augustan: Wiktionary
  8. Augustan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Augustan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Augustan: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Augustan, augustan: Dictionary.com
  12. Augustan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Augustan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Augustan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. augustan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Augustan: Rhymezone
  17. Augustan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. augustan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. augustan: FreeDictionary.org
  20. augustan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Augustan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Augustan: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Augustan: Encyclopedia

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  1. augustan: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Augustan)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to the times of the Roman emperor Augustus (63 B.C.E. - 14 C.E.).
▸ adjective:  (literature) Pertaining to the Roman poetic literature during this time.
▸ adjective:  (literature) Pertaining to the period of English literature during the first half of the 18th century, known for satire and political themes.

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Augustian, Augustin, Augæan, late antique, antiquitous, ancient Roman, antiquarian, antique, arcadian, anteclassical, more...

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augustan age, augustan history, augustan confession, Augustan literature, 14 regions of Augustan Rome, more...

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post, late, pre, anti, early, great, last, true, pro, more, typical

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Similar:
Augustian, Augustin, Augæan, late antique, antiquitous, ancient Roman, antiquarian, antique, arcadian, anteclassical, more...

Phrases:
augustan age, augustan history, augustan confession, Augustan literature, 14 regions of Augustan Rome, Augustan poetry, more...

Adjectives:
post, late, pre, anti, early, great, last, true, pro, more, typical

Colors:
    gold,     olive,     ivory,     bronze,     sepia, more...



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