AUGUSTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Augusta mean? 

• AUGUSTA (noun)
  The noun AUGUSTA has 2 senses:

1. the capital of the state of Maine

2. a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments

  Familiarity information: AUGUSTA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUGUSTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of the state of Maine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Augusta; capital of Maine

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Augusta" is a part of...):

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State (a state in New England)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Augusta" is a part of...):

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

Good-bye, Mr. Brocklehurst; remember me to Mrs. and Miss Brocklehurst, and to Augusta and Theodore, and Master Broughton Brocklehurst.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Researchers from the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, found that arterial stiffness was improved by vitamin D supplementation in a dose-response manner in this population.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Miss Augusta should have been with her governess.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He called her 'Augusta.'

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Miss Augusta ought not to have been noticed for the next six months; and Miss Sneyd, I believe, has never forgiven me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Many a time has Selina said, when she has been going to Bristol, 'I really cannot get this girl to move from the house. I absolutely must go in by myself, though I hate being stuck up in the barouche-landau without a companion; but Augusta, I believe, with her own good-will, would never stir beyond the park paling.'

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks—they are almost like poor people's children! and,' said she, 'they looked at my dress and mama's, as if they had never seen a silk gown before.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Shall we walk, Augusta?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The charming Augusta Hawkins, in addition to all the usual advantages of perfect beauty and merit, was in possession of an independent fortune, of so many thousands as would always be called ten; a point of some dignity, as well as some convenience: the story told well; he had not thrown himself away—he had gained a woman of 10,000 l. or thereabouts; and he had gained her with such delightful rapidity—the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice; the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the affair was so glorious—the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's—smiles and blushes rising in importance—with consciousness and agitation richly scattered—the lady had been so easily impressed—so sweetly disposed—had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally contented.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)