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  • proper noun UK St Albans

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • It's sort of as if we still called the town of St. Albans "Verulamium" -- especially if at the same time classical Latin still had the cultural weight it once did.

    languagehat.com: RENAMING THE HAN. 2004

  • In the early days of their occupation a walled town, which was soon raised to the rank of a _municipium_, was built on the south-western side of the Ver, and from the name of the river was called Verulamium or Verlamium.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey Thomas Perkins 1874

  • Verulamium? might have carried on more or less unscathed for varying periods, or shifted to a different social model run by a different elite, or the same elite with a new material culture York?

    The Kingmaking, by Helen Hollick. Book review Carla 2009

  • And we might include Wroxeter if the south-west can stretch so far - somebody there was expensively redeveloping the old Roman town centre in around 560-580 using Roman measurements, just as somebody in Verulamium was relaying water mains in the early fifth century.

    The Kingmaking, by Helen Hollick. Book review Carla 2009

  • She burned three major Roman towns, Londinium (London), Verulamium (St. Albans), and Camulodunum (Colchester).

    Patt Cottingham: Goodbye/Hello 13: Women Reclaiming Rights to Their Goddess Power 2009

  • FEARS have been raised that parts of the city's old Roman town - which lies beneath Verulamium Park - have disappeared.

    Mosaic Mystery Jan 2008

  • Verulamium Park, named after the Roman town, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country and is recognised as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008

  • Verulamium Park, named after the Roman town, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country and is recognised as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    Mosaic Mystery Jan 2008

  • After Zimbabwe and her decision to pursue archaeology, Kenyon worked at Roman Britain's third largest city Verulamium with the famous archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his wife, Tessa.

    Beyond Jericho 2008

  • She was a student of Mortimer Wheeler's, working with Wheeler and his wife Tessa at the Roman site of Verulamium.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

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