AUGUSTAN


Meaning of AUGUSTAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɔ:ˈɡʌstən ]

adj. & n. --adj. 1 connected with, occurring during, or influenced by the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, esp. as an outstanding period of Latin literature. 2 (of a nation's literature) refined and classical in style (in England of the literature of the 17th-18th c.). --n. a writer of the Augustan age of any literature. [L Augustanus f. Augustus]

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