Definitions

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  • proper noun UK St Albans (more often named Verulamium)
  • proper noun UK Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans
  • proper noun a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Etymologies

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Latin Verulamia, being the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.

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Examples

  • He proposed to found there an asylum for the persecuted Catholics; and at a little harbor on the eastern shore, just south of Cape Broyle, which he called Verulam, a name since corrupted to Ferryland, he built

    Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor John Fretwell

  • Now, as this place was not only a store-fort but a sanctuary, so also it had a secular name and a sacred name; like our own venerable English abbey-town of Verulam, which is also called St. Albans.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • Durban's northern Verulam area where Lekota was due to speak.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • ANC members stormed the hall in Verulam, north of Durban.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The Mercury Newspaper reported on Friday morning that about 50 Cope supporters had gathered at a hall to hear Lekota speak when about 200 ANC supporters stormed the hall in Verulam north of Durban.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Verulam, north of Durban was disrupted by 200 ANC supporters.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The ANC's top leadership on Tuesday condemned reports of political intimidation by its supporters in Verulam near Durban last week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The statement comes after party supporters disrupted a meeting of the breakaway Congress of the People (Cope) party in Verulam, Durban at the weekend.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • On November 13, Cope held a branch meeting in Verulam which was disrupted, allegedly by ANC members.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Referring to the neutrality of the police, he questioned why "not a single African National Congress member had been arrested" by police following the disruption to several meetings by Cope, including the latest disruption in Durban's Verulam area on Thursday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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