AugustAu‧gust /ˈɔːɡəst $ ˈɒː-/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable, uncountable] (written abbreviation Aug.) 
I was there last August.in August My birthday’s in August.on August 6th The new store opened on August 6th.on 6th August British English He arrived at Berwick on 6th August 1823.August 6 American English We’ll expect you to call August 6.
WORD ORIGINAugust
Origin:
1000-1100 Latin Augustus, from Augustus Caesar (63BC - AD14), Roman emperorEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- As Margaret Regan reported in August, the number of students at the new campus was 44 on opening day.
- On August 27 she walked into a restaurant outside Cadiz, where Noye was dining.
- On the sixth day, the first of August, I was frightened.
- The bomb blasts in Moscow last August remain unsolved.
- The last to die was David Mason, who was sent to the gas chamber in August 1993.
- Trouble for the Hoovers started on a hot, late August Sunday in 1953.
WORD SETS
AD, advance, verbafter, prepositionafternoon, nounalarm, nounalarm clock, nouna.m., Anno Domini, annual, adjectiveApril, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAug., August, nounautumn, nounautumnal, adjectivebank holiday, nounBC, BCE, biannual, adjectivebicentenary, nounbicentennial, nounbiennial, adjectivebimonthly, adjectivebirthday, nounbiweekly, adjectivebonfire night, nounBoxing Day, nounBritish Summer Time, nounBST, nouncalendar, nouncalendar month, nouncalendar year, nouncarriage clock, nouncentenary, nouncentury, nounChristmas, nounChristmas Day, nounChristmas Eve, nounChristmastime, nounchronograph, nounchronological, adjectivechronometer, nouncircadian, adjectiveclock, nouncrystal, nouncuckoo clock, nouncycle, nouncyclic, adjectivedaily, adjectivedaily, adverbdate, noundate, verbdawn, nounday, nounDec., decade, nounDecember, noundiamond anniversary, noundiamond jubilee, noundinnertime, noundiurnal, adjectived.o.b., due date, noundusk, nounface, nounFather's Day, nounfeast, nounFebruary, nounfortnightly, adjectiveFourth of July, the, Fri., Friday, nounGood Friday, nounGreenwich Mean Time, nounGregorian calendar, nounguy, nounGuy Fawkes Night, nounhalf-hourly, adjectivehalf-yearly, adjectiveHalloween, nounhand, nounHanukkah, nounharvest festival, nounHogmanay, nounhorn, nounhour, nounhourglass, nounhour hand, nounhr, Independence Day, nounJan., January, nounjubilee, nounJuly, nounJune, nounLabor Day, nounleap year, nounlunar month, nounmainspring, nounman-hour, nounMar., March, nounMardi Gras, nounmarket day, nounMaundy Thursday, nounMay, nounMay Day, nounMichaelmas, nounmidday, nounmiddle age, nounmiddle-aged, adjectivemidnight, nounMidsummer Day, nounmidweek, adjectivemillennium, nounmin., minute hand, nounMon., Monday, nounmonth, nounmorn, nounmorning, nounMothering Sunday, nounMother's Day, nounmovable feast, nounnew moon, nounNew Year, nounNew Year's Day, nounNew Year's Eve, nounnight, nounnightfall, nounnighttime, nounnocturnal, adjectiveNoel, nounnoon, nounnoonday, adjectiveNov., November, nounOct., October, nounp.a., Pancake Day, nounPDT, penultimate, adjectiveper annum, adverbper diem, adverbperiodic, adjectivep.m., PST, public holiday, nounquarter, nounquotidian, adjectiveRemembrance Day, nounSat., Saturday, nounschoolday, nounseason, nounsecond, nounsecond hand, nounself-winding, adjectiveSeptember, nounshockproof, adjectivesilver anniversary, nounsilver jubilee, nounsilver wedding anniversary, nounsolar year, nounsolstice, nounspring, nounspringtime, nounstandard time, nounstopwatch, nounsummer, nounsummer solstice, nounsummertime, nounsummery, adjectiveSun., Sunday, nounsundown, nounsunrise, nounsunset, nounsun-up, nountercentenary, nounThanksgiving, nounthirty, numberThursday, nountime, nountime, verbtimepiece, nountimer, nountime signal, nountime warp, nountime zone, nountoday, adverbtoday, nountomorrow, adverbtomorrow, nountonight, adverbtonight, nountriennial, adjectiveTuesday, nountwilight, nounWed., Wednesday, nounweek, nounweekday, nounweekend, nounweekly, adjectiveweeknight, nounWhit, nounWhitsun, nounwinter, nounwintertime, nounwk., wristwatch, nounyear, nounyesterday, adverbyr., Yule, nounYuletide, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I was there last August.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the eighth month of the year, between July and Septembernext/last August I was there last August.· Italy is lovely in early June, before it gets too hot.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Since early August, the rates have declined by 0.3 per cent.· Fastmaturing varieties that might take a scant seven weeks until harvest begins should be sown in early August.· He got his first chance on the early August day that Mayor George Miller awarded him the one-year job.· In early August he was finally ready.· This election will be sometime between mid-July and early August.
· Bernstein had first heard this in late August from a reporter on an-other newspaper.· Since late August, Milhoan has been pursuing a complaint against Capt.· The greatest variety of birds are sighted in late April and May and in late August and September.· In late August, after testing the cataract with an empty barrel, he announced that he would go over him-self.· Trouble for the Hoovers started on a hot, late August Sunday in 1953.· Legally challenged by opponents since the Nov. 5 election, it was upheld by a federal appeals court in late August.· In late August, he was hitting. 330.· In late August, three months into her stay, an eighteen-year old Phoenix girl was admitted with bulbar polio.
· The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
VERB· The two groups announced last August they had come up with dense wavelength division multiplexing prototype chips.
· A lower court in Hawaii is expected to uphold such legalization in a case with opening arguments that begin in August.· The first patient began the study in August 1995 and the last in February 1996, Markowitz said.· Sales to corporate accounts will begin in August, with retail sales by December.· The case was remanded to a lower court, where arguments are scheduled to begin in August.· He hopes to complete the cleanup, which began in August, by the end of the week.· Repetition of the violence in Memphis began in August 1866 in New Orleans when several related events culminated in a racial explosion.· He received a 21-month sentence, which he began serving last August.· The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
· The Raptors will have an exclusive bargaining window beginning in August.
· The embryos that became Megan and Morag were produced in February 1995, and they were born in August 1995.· Jessica Waddell Lewinstein was born in August 1983.
· He replaced Vazgen I, who died in August 1994 after nearly four decades as supreme patriarch.· Canonized 1234; died, August 6; feast day, August 8.
· Emygdius' ability to evangelize created such a stir that the newly appointed bishop was beheaded. Feast day, August 9.· Also patron of jaundice sufferers. Feast day, August 8.· Sebald tossed icicles into the chimney, which disbursed warmth throughout the cottage. Feast day, August 19.· Canonized 1657; feast day, August 31.· Also patron of actors, lawyers, printers, and secretaries. Feast day, August 25.· Also patron of crusaders, kings, and parenthood. Feast day, August 25.· Canonized 1234; died, August 6; feast day, August 8.
· She was in Charleston, South Carolina, the following August when an eight-minute earthquake caused 110 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
· Bids are expected to be opened in July or August.· But the grand opening in August 1990 would have been ruined had the diplomats known everything about their elegant chancery.· The same company is also expected to operate the orbital light rail route which opens in August.
I was there last August.in August My birthday’s in August.on August 6th The new store opened on August 6th.on 6th August British English He arrived at Berwick on 6th August 1823.August 6 American English We’ll expect you to call August 6.