Austins

Proper noun

Austin (plural Austins)

1. A male given name from Old French, of Anglo-Norman origin.
2. An English surname originating as a patronymic from the given name.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 'He says the business with Austin doing take-and-drive-away, it's a deep compulsion he has, a compulsion to find out his real identity by sampling and testing out various machines.'
     'You mean it's the vicar's fault for naming him after a car?'1986, Hilary Mantel, Vacant Possession, Harper Perennial, published 2006, →ISBN, page 15
4. A municipality of Quebec; named for Canadian Quaker Nicholas Austin.
5. A community in Manitoba.
6. The capital city of Texas, United States, and the county seat of Travis County; named for American empresario Stephen F. Austin.
   • The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]2015, Alan Schaefer, Joe Nick Patoski, Nels Jacobson, Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, page 17

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