Austin
stən noun
1.
Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
2.
John, 1790–1859, English writer on law.
4.
Mary (Hunter) 1868–1934, U.S. novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
5.
Stephen Fuller, 1793–1836, American colonizer in Texas.
6.
Warren Robinson, 1877–1962, U.S. diplomat.
7.
Augustine, Saint ( def 2 ).
8.
a city in and the capital of Texas, in the central part, on the Colorado River.
9.
a city in SE Minnesota.
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noun
1.
Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
2.
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.
Related forms
pre-Au·gus·tine, adjective
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Augustine (ɔːˈɡʌstɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Saint. 354--430 |
| 2. | Saint. died 604 |
| 3. | a member of an Augustinian order |
| 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 | |
| Texas (ˈtɛksəs) | |
| —n | |
| Tex, Abbreviation: TX a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles) | |
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Word Origin & History
Texas
Mexican province, briefly an independent nation and now a U.S. state, from Sp. Texas, Tejas, earlier pronounced "ta-shas," originally an ethnic name, from Caddo (eastern Texas Indian tribe) taysha "friends, allies," written by the Spanish as a plural. Tex as a nickname for a Texan is recorded from 1909.
Tex-Mex "of Mexican-Texan origin" is recorded from 1949, from Texan + Mexican. An earlier noun for "Texan of Mexican background" was Texican (1863). Baseball Texas-leaguer is recorded from 1905.
Austin
surname (also Austen) and masc. proper name, from O.Fr. Aousten, an abbreviated form of L. Augustine.
Augustine
c.1400 in ref. to members of the religious order named for St. Augustine the Great (354-430), bishop of Hippo.
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Augustine [(aw-guh-steen, aw-gus-tin)]An important teacher in the Christian church, who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries. After a dramatic conversion to Christianity, Augustine became a bishop. He is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. His works include The City of God and his autobiography, Confessions.
Texas definition
State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin, and its largest city is Houston.
Note: One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.
Note: One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.
Note: Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.
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