Albion Definition

ălbē-ən
pronoun

The ancient name for England (sometimes, the British Isles), now only used poetically.

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Any of several small towns in the United States.
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West Bromwich Albion Football Club, a football team from West Bromwich.
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Origin of Albion

  • Ancient Gallo-Latin name for Britain, Albiōn (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), is from Proto-Celtic *albiyū (“world”) (stem : *albiyon-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos, *álbʰos (“white”), whence also Latin albus (“white”) and Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphos, “whiteness, white leprosy”). The primary meaning of Common Celtic word is "upper world" (as opposed to underworld), with semasiological development similar to e.g. Russian свет (svet, “world; light”).

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  • It is often hypothesised that the Romans took it as connected with albus (“white”), in reference to the White cliffs of Dover.

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Albion Sentence Examples

  • The name Albion was taken by medieval writers from Pliny and Ptolemy.

  • The news of the strengthening of the British army and navy lately announced in the king's speech had perhaps annoyed him; but seeing that his outbursts of passion were nearly always the result of calculation - he once stated, pointing to his chin, that temper only mounted that high with him - his design, doubtless, was to set men everywhere talking about the perfidy of Albion.

  • He now threw all his energies into the task of marshalling the forces of France and his vassal states for the overthrow of "perfidious Albion."

  • Still greater was the influence of Geoffrey upon those writers who, like Warner in Albion's England (1586), and Drayton in Polyolbion (1613), deliberately made their accounts of English history as poetical as possible.

  • From 1872 to 1875 she studied at Albion College, Mich., and in 1878 graduated from the Theological School of Boston University.

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Words Starting With

AALALB

Words Ending With

NONION

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Albion

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With A6 Letter Words Ending With N