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Auster [aw-ster] ExamplesWord Origin noun Literary.
- the south wind personified.
Origin of Auster 1325–75; Middle English Latin Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for auster Contemporary Examples of auster
Not wasting a day, Erdogan responded to Auster in a party meeting, calling the author an “ignorant man.”
Paul Auster’s Criticism of Turkey’s Treatment of Writers Rebuked by P.M.
Oray Egin
February 4, 2012
In 1996 Auster himself, along with 143 other international writers, was called in to court to testify.
Paul Auster’s Criticism of Turkey’s Treatment of Writers Rebuked by P.M.
Oray Egin
February 4, 2012
Although Auster refuses to go to Turkey, this may be the perfect opportunity for his visit.
Paul Auster’s Criticism of Turkey’s Treatment of Writers Rebuked by P.M.
Oray Egin
February 4, 2012
Historical Examples of auster
Or was it but a faint breath, lost in the rushing of the Auster?
Mr Jkai
Thus we shall have an eighth part of the circumference set out for Auster and another for Septentrio.
Vitruvius
Notus (or Auster), the south wind, was usually represented by an old man with dusky wings.
Stories of Old Greece and Rome
Emilie Kip Baker
At the present day, an auster tenement is a species of copyhold, with all the incidents to that tenure.
Notes & Queries, No. 19, Saturday, March 9, 1850
Various
As in the London version of 1600, the dog is omitted, and the words Septentrio and Auster are added.
On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth
William Gilbert of Colchester
British Dictionary definitions for auster Auster noun
- poetic the south wind
Word Origin for Auster C14: Latin Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for auster n.
“south wind,” late 14c., from Latin auster “the south wind; the south country” (see Australia).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
