august

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The Word of the Day for August 1 is:

august   \aw-GUST\   adjective
     : marked by majestic dignity or grandeur 

Example sentence: 
     Mr. Lee's bearing was always august and stately, and he drew respectful 
glances wherever he went.

Did you know?  
     "August" comes from the Latin word "augustus," meaning "consecrated" or 
"venerable," which in turn is related to the Latin "augur," meaning 
"consecrated by augury" or "auspicious." In 8 B.C. the Roman Senate honored 
Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, by changing the name of their month 
"Sextilis" to "Augustus." Middle English speakers inherited the name of the 
month of August, but it wasn't until the mid-1600s that "august" came to be 
used generically in English, more or less as "augustus" was in Latin, to refer 
to someone with imperial qualities.






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