Meanings
- poeticGreat Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles).
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[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, […]
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 - Any of several places in the United States:
- A city, the county seat of Edwards County, Illinois.
- A town in Kennebec County, Maine.
- A city, the county seat of Boone County, Nebraska.
- A village, the county seat of Orleans County, New York.
- A town in Orleans County, New York, which includes a large part of the village.
- A town in Oswego County, New York
- A village in the town of Lincoln, Rhode Island.
- A town and unincorporated community in Dane County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Albion Township.
- A northern suburb of Brisbane in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- 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.
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.
2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*albʰós“white”
- Proto-Celtic*Albiū
- LatinAlbiōn
- Middle EnglishAlbion
- EnglishAlbion
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”). 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.
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Czech Albion
- AlbionEngland
Esperanto Albiono
- AlbionoEngland
French Albion
- AlbionEngland
German Albion
- AlbionEngland
Greek Αλβιόνα
- Αλβιόνα (Alvióna)England
Italian Albione
- AlbioneEngland
Polish Albion
- AlbionEngland
Portuguese Álbion
- ÁlbionEngland
Russian Альбио́н, Тума́нный Альбио́н
- Альбио́н (Alʹbión)England
- Тума́нный Альбио́н (Tumánnyj Alʹbión)England
Spanish Albión
- AlbiónEngland
Swedish Albion
- AlbionEngland
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Cite this entry
Albion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Albion
“Albion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Albion. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Albion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Albion.
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