Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- England or Great Britain. Often used poetically.
Wiktionary
- n. The ancient name for England (or sometimes, the British Isles), now only used poetically.
- n. Any of several small towns in the United States.
- n. West Bromwich Albion Football Club, a football team from West Bromwich
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically
Etymologies
- 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"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The remarks reflect a growing sense of bitterness in Moscow, where many feel that 'Foggy Albion' is on a mission to blacken Russia's World Cup bid.”
The Guardian: 'They're so petty' – How Russia sees the World Cup spat with England
“Yes | No | Report from deerslayer1234 wrote 1 week 6 days ago roughly 120 acres. out in Albion, PA”
“Tim in Albion said on June 22nd, 2008 at 11: 03 pm”
“Each "Minute Particular" of Albion is "hardened" by a Newtonian vision into a "grain of sand," from a superimposition-fusionembraceof the book, the body, and the city (each of these is clearly intimated in the plate) of the infinite vision.”
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
“Albion is Blake's Everyman; his life recapitulates the life of everyone who ever lived, even while possessing its own individuality.”
“The elder Pliny, in discussing the etymology of the word Albion, suggests that the land may have been so named from the White Roses which abounded in it -- 'Albion insula sic dicta ab albis rupibus, quas mare alluit, vel ob rosas albas quibus abundat.”
“They started as West Bromwich Strollers in 1878 before adopting the name Albion in 1880.”
“Fisher was born Mary Frances Kennedy in Albion, Michigan on July 3, 1908.”
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“Channeling Morrissey, Ziggy Stardust, Edith Sitwell, the shrieking queens of the music-hall era, and — more distantly — Percy Bysshe Shelley, he is currently the leading exporter of English exoticism: a crash course, indeed, in Albion’s buried glamour.”
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Here We Have Idaho
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Here We Have Idaho is the title of the state song.
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Archaic, poetic placenames
Albion, Gaul, Formosa, Ceylon, Cathay, Hibernia, Caledonia, Helvetica, Columbia, Illyria, Hellas, Livonia and 17 more...
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Used poetically
A list of words with definitions containing the phrase "used poetically."
nepenthes, sigh, mysterious, Albion, linden, glaive, herald, gladness, alway, gules, Tyrrhenian, begat and 2 more...
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Useful
parkour, diegetic, callipygian, dasypygal, hypnagogic, hypnopompic, antejentacular, postprandial, perspicuity, perspicacity, föhn, traceur and 115 more...
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Useful Words
Words that I both like and feel could have use in writing.
confabulate, Albion, lugubrious, placability, aberration, acquiesce, ambiguous, succint, phototoxic, alacrity, indolent, perfunctory and 56 more...
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