What is "austin"

Austin \Aus"tin\, a. Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

surname (also Austen) and masc. proper name, from Old French Aousten, an abbreviated form of Latin Augustine.

a. Augustinian n. 1 A city, the capital of Texas. 2 (surname patronymic from=given names) 3 (given name male from=Latin), in modern usage transferred back from the surname. 4 A former make of British motor car.

Austin is the capital of Texas in the United States.

Austin may also refer to:

Austin is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system. It is located between the Ridgeland and Central stations on the Green Line, which runs from Harlem/Lake in Forest Park and to Ashland/63rd and Cottage Grove. The station is located at the intersection of Austin Boulevard and Corcoran Place in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side and borders the village of Oak Park.

Austin opened on April 15, 1899, as part of a surface level extension of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad, along with Central. It was rebuilt in the early 1960s as part of a project which moved the western end of the Lake Street line off of its street level alignment and onto an abandoned strip of the parallel Chicago and Northwestern Railway's embankment. The station at Austin consists of a single island platform; a stairway and escalator connect the platform to a station building. Trains serve Austin between 3:50am and 1:00am on weekdays, 5:50am and 1:00am on Saturdays, and 6:20am and 1:00am on Sundays. In addition to trains, Austin also serves CTA and Pace buses.

Austin is an English given name and surname, an Old French language contraction of Agustin, popular form of Augustin, equivalent to Augustine.

"Austin" is the title of a debut song written by David Kent and Kirsti Manna, and performed by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released in April 2001 as his debut single, and was served as the first single from the album Blake Shelton.

The song was originally released on the Giant Records label; however, that label closed its doors as the single was climbing the charts, with Shelton and his single being transferred to the Warner Bros. Records label. "Austin" was not only Blake's debut single, but also his first number-one single, spending five weeks atop the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was also a pop hit, peaking at number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, his highest-peaking single on the Hot 100 until " Honey Bee" debuted at number 13 in 2011. "Austin" tied a record set by Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992. Cyrus' " Achy Breaky Heart" stayed atop the chart for five weeks, setting the mark for an artist's debut single in the Broadcast Data Systems era of the chart. BDS began monitoring radio play for the chart in January 1991.

Austin is a chapel designed by artist Ellsworth Kelly under construction (as of October 31, 2015) on the Blanton Museum of Art’s grounds in Austin, Texas.

In January 2015, Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum the design concept for a stone building that he subsequently named Austin. This work of art relates to the tradition of modernist artist-commissioned buildings that includes Rothko Chapel and Henri Matisse’s Matisse Chapel. Kelly said that the design of the building was inspired by Romanesque and Byzantine art he studied while in Paris on the G.I. Bill. Following Kelly’s gift, the Blanton launched a $15 million campaign to realize the project.