St. Augustine

American  

[aw-guh-steen] / ˈɔ gəˌstin /

noun

1. a seacoast city in NE Florida: founded by the Spanish 1565; oldest city in the U.S.; resort.

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Example Sentences

Arendt had written her dissertation on St. Augustine, who held curiosity to be dangerous, often tempting one to sin because of an insatiable hunger for one sight after another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

The five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, 77, listed his St. Augustine dwelling Feb. 1, having purchased the picturesque home for $725,000 in 2012 and completely custom built it, Realtor.com can exclusively reveal.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

Xi Jinping, presiding over the world’s second-largest economy, has shown the opposite: that prosperity alone cannot satisfy what St. Augustine called humanity’s “restless heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Horton often push back the organic chaos of a subtropical swamp in favor of paver-stone patios and endless miles of St. Augustine grass.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking