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Austin

[aw-stuhn]

Origin

noun

Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.

John, 1790–1859, English writer on law.

John Lang·shaw

[lang-shaw] , 1911–60, British philosopher.

Mary (Hunter), 1868–1934, U.S. novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.

Stephen Fuller, 1793–1836, American colonizer in Texas.

EXPAND

Warren Robinson, 1877–1962, U.S. diplomat.

Augustine, Saint (def. 2).

a city in and the capital of Texas, in the central part, on the Colorado River. 345,496.

a city in SE Minnesota. 23,020.

10.

a male given name, form of Augustus.

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noun

Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.

Saint, (Austin), died a.d. 604, Roman monk: headed group of missionaries who landed in England a.d. 597 and began the conversion of the English to Christianity; first archbishop of Canterbury 601–604.

a male given name, form of Augustus.

Related forms

pre-Au·gus·tine, adjective

noun

a state in the S United States. 14,228,383; 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).

Related forms

Tex·an, Tex·i·an

[tek-see-uhn] , adjective, noun

Can be confused: Texan, Tucson, Tuscan.

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Austin¹ (ˈɒstɪn)

—n
	a city in central Texas, on the Colorado River: state capital since 1845. Pop: 672 011 (2003 est)

Austin² (ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔː-)

—n
1.	Herbert, 1st Baron. 1866--1941, British automobile engineer, who founded the Austin Motor Company
2.	John. 1790--1859, British jurist, whose book The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832) greatly influenced legal theory and the English legal system
3.	J(ohn) L(angshaw) (ˈlæŋʃɔː). 1911--60, English philosopher, whose lectures Sense and Sensibilia and How to do Things with Words were published posthumously in 1962

Austin³ (ˈɒstɪn)

—*adj*, —n
	another word for Augustinian

[C14: shortened form of Augustine]

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Austin

surname (also Austen) and masc. proper name, from O.Fr. Aousten, an abbreviated form of L. Augustine.

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