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AUGUSTNESS

Definition: AUGUSTNESS

AUGUSTNESS

Noun

1. The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AUGUSTNESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)


Synonym: AUGUSTNESS

Synonym: grandeur. (additional references)

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Modern Translation: AUGUSTNESS

Language Translations for "AUGUSTNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

sublimité. (various references)

   

German

  

Erhabenheit (convexness, dignity, elevation, eminence, grandeur, greatness, illustriousness, loftiness, relief, solemnity, sublimity, superiority, transcendence). (various references)

   

Italian

  

elevatezza (dignity, highness, loftiness, transcendence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

augustnessay

   

Russian 

  

величие (elevation, grandeur, greatness, mightiness, royalty). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sublimidad (dignity, elevation, loftiness, sublimity, transcendence). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: AUGUSTNESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "AUGUSTNESS": augustnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"AUGUSTNESS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Augustinis, Augustinus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "AUGUSTNESS"

Words rhyming with "AUGUSTNESS" (pronounced 'Au*gust"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AUGUSTNESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-s-s-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: gastness.

-3 letters: assents, gausses, gussets, sunsets, unseats.

-4 letters: agents, angsts, anuses, assent, assets, august, gasses, guests, gusset, sagest, sanest, sautes, stages, stanes, stangs, stases, sunset, tasses, teguas, tusses, ungues, unseat, unsets, usages, usneas.

-5 letters: agent, agues, angst, antes, asses, asset, aunts, easts, etnas, gases, gasts, gates, gaunt, gauss, gents, genua, genus, gests, getas, gnats.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-s-s-s-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: augustnesses.

 

+4 letters: gratuitousness, outrageousness.

 

+5 letters: autosuggestions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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