Albion

From Middle English Albion, from Latin Albiōn, an Ancient Gallo-Latin name for Britain (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), from Proto-Celtic *Albiū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”), whence also Latin albus (“white”) and Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “whiteness, white leprosy”).^[1] The primary meaning of the Common Celtic word is "upper world" (as opposed to underworld), with semasiological development similar to e.g. Russian свет (svet, “world; light”).

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈælbi.ən/
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /ˈælbɪən/

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Albion

1. (now poetic) Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 160:

     [M]ightie Albion, father of the bold / And warlike people which the Britaine Iſlands hold. / For Albion the ſonne of Neptune was, / Who for the proofe of his great puiſſance, / Out of his Albion did on dry-foot pas / Into old Gall, that now is cleeped France, / To fight with Hercules, that did auance / To vanquiſh all the world with his matchleſſe might, […]

2. Any of several places in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California.
   2. A city, the county seat of Edwards County, Illinois.
   3. A town, the county seat of Noble County, Indiana, also located in Albion Township and Jefferson Township. Named after Albion, New York.
   4. A city, the county seat of Boone County, Nebraska.
   5. A village, the county seat of Orleans County, New York.
   6. A village in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
   7. A town and unincorporated community in Dane County, Wisconsin.
   8. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Albion Township.
3. Any of a number of football clubs in Great Britain, including West Bromwich Albion F.C., a football club from West Bromwich in the West Midlands, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., a football club from the city of Brighton and Hove in Sussex, and Stirling Albion F.C., a football club in the city of Stirling in central Scotland.
   • 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     The Reds laid siege to the Albion goal throughout, with Jordan Henderson striking the underside of the bar and Dirk Kuyt the inside of the post.

• Bailon, albino, laibon, no bail, no-bail, oliban, on bail

Albion m

1. a male given name

• Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена [Catalogue of the most common Albanian names and surnames]‎^[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 8

See the English chapter above.

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IPA^(key): /al.bjɔ̃/

Albion f (uncountable)

1. (poetic, derogatory) England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
   • 1793, Augustin Louis de Ximénès, L'Ère des Français:

     « Attaquons dans ses eaux la perfide Albion. »

     "Let us attack perfidious Albion in her waters."

   • 1878, Gustave Flaubert, Correspondances:

     « Et la guerre ? Et les forfanteries de la perfide Albion tournant en eau de boudin ? Farce ! Farce ! »

     "What about war? And what about the conceitedness of the perfidious Albion petering out? What a joke! What a joke!

   • 1982, Yves Martin, Perfide Albion, Saban Records:

     « Perfide Albion je te maudis / Depuis le jour où tu m'as séduit / Je pense à toi en plein Paris / C'est malgré moi j'ai le mal de ton pays

     "Damn you, Perfidious Albion / Since the day you seduced me / I think about you in the middle of Paris / It is in spite of myself that I am homesick for you"

Originally used simply for England, now used more extensively to encompass all The United Kingdom. Used mostly in the expression perfide Albion.

Borrowed from English Albion.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bjɔn/

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• Rhymes: -albjɔn
• Syllabification: Al‧bion

Albion m inan

1. (poetic) Albion (England (or sometimes the British Isles))

   mglisty Albion ― foggy Albion

• Albion in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Albion

1. Albion

• albino