Austin (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  2. English writer on law.
  3. British philosopher.
  4. U.S. novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
  5. American colonizer in Texas.
  6. 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.
  10. a male given name, form of Augustus.
noun
  1. a city in central Texas, on the Colorado River: state capital since 1845. Pop: 672 011 (2003 est)
noun
  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
adjective, noun
  1. another word for Augustinian
Austin (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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