august : Idioms & Phrases


15 august 1945

  • noun the date of Allied victory over Japan, World War II
    V-J Day.
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august 1

  • noun commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England
    Lammas Day; Lammas.
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august 15

  • noun celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
    Assumption; Assumption of Mary.
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august 6

  • noun (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
    Transfiguration Day; Transfiguration.
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august f. mobius

  • noun German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868)
    Mobius; August F. Mobius.
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august ferdinand mobius

  • noun German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868)
    Mobius; August F. Mobius.
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august friedrich leopold weismann

  • noun German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)
    Weismann.
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august plum

  • noun wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
    goose plum; Prunus americana; American red plum.
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august strindberg

  • noun Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912)
    Strindberg; August Strindberg.
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august von wassermann

  • noun German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925)
    Wassermann.
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august wilhelm von hoffmann

  • noun German chemist (1818-1892)
    Hoffmann.
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carl august nielsen

  • noun Danish composer (1865-1931)
    Nielsen; Carl Nielsen.
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friedrich august kekule

  • noun German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896)
    Friedrich August Kekule; Kekule.
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friedrich august kekule von stradonitz

  • noun German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896)
    Friedrich August Kekule; Kekule.
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friedrich august von hayek

  • noun English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992)
    Hayek.
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friedrich august wolf

  • noun German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
    Wolf.
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friedrich wilhelm august froebel

  • noun German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852)
    Froebel; Friedrich Froebel.
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johan august strindberg

  • noun Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912)
    Strindberg; August Strindberg.
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mid-august

  • noun the middle part of August
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richard august carl emil erlenmeyer

  • noun German chemist (1825-1909)
    Erlenmeyer.
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svante august arrhenius

  • noun Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)
    Arrhenius.
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