connected with or occurring during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus:a Roman villa of the Augustan period
relating to or denoting Latin literature of the reign of Augustus, including the works of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy.
relating to or denoting 17th- and 18th-century English literature of a style considered refined and classical, including the works of Pope, Addison, and Swift:poets of the Augustan age
noun
a writer of the (Latin or English) Augustan period or style.
Origin:
from Latin Augustanus 'relating to Augustus' (see Augustus)
Augustan in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of Augustan in the US English dictionary
