Albion

Ancient Gallo-Latin name for Britain, Albiōn (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), is from Proto-Celtic *Albiū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”), whence also Latin albus (“white”) and Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “whiteness, white leprosy”). 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).
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.

• Alba (compare; cognate)
• Perfidious Albion

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

See the English chapter above.

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IPA^(key): /al.bjɔ̃/

Albion f (uncountable)

1. (poetic, derogatory) England
   • 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