augustan

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus

   “the Augustan Age”

Questions about augustan

What does augustan mean?

augustan means "relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus".

How many syllables are in augustan?

augustan has 3 syllables and divides as au-gu-stan under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is augustan a common word?

augustan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.