AUGUSTUS

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• AUGUSTUS (noun)
  The noun AUGUSTUS has 1 sense:

1. Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14)

  Familiarity information: AUGUSTUS used as a noun is very rare.

• AUGUSTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Augustus; Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus; Gaius Octavianus; Octavian

Instance hypernyms:

Emperor of Rome; Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Roman Empire)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Derivation:

Augustan (relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus)

 Context examples 

I understood that he had opened his campaign against Charles Augustus Milverton, but I little dreamed the strange shape which that campaign was destined to take.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He added, that upon the confidence of some merit, the war being at an end, he went to Rome, and solicited at the court of Augustus to be preferred to a greater ship, whose commander had been killed; but, without any regard to his pretensions, it was given to a boy who had never seen the sea, the son of Libertina, who waited on one of the emperor’s mistresses.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Meg, as the eldest, was Samuel Pickwick, Jo, being of a literary turn, Augustus Snodgrass, Beth, because she was round and rosy, Tracy Tupman, and Amy, who was always trying to do what she couldn't, was Nathaniel Winkle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen grey eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He handed over the book, and I read, Moran, Sebastian, Colonel. Unemployed. Formerly 1st Bangalore Pioneers. Born London, 1840. Son of Sir Augustus Moran, C.B., once British Minister to Persia. Educated Eton and Oxford. Served in Jowaki Campaign, Afghan Campaign, Charasiab (despatches), Sherpur, and Cabul. Author of Heavy Game of the Western Himalayas (1881); Three Months in the Jungle (1884). Address: Conduit Street. Clubs: The Anglo-Indian, the Tankerville, the Bagatelle Card Club.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)