ALBION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Albion mean? 

• ALBION (noun)
  The noun ALBION has 1 sense:

1. archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically

  Familiarity information: ALBION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALBION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

GB; Great Britain (an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales)

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

“Micawber,” returned Mrs. Micawber, “there, you are wrong. You are going out, Micawber, to this distant clime, to strengthen, not to weaken, the connexion between yourself and Albion.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When we reached Albion Place they were out; we went after them, and found them on the pier: Mrs. and the two Miss Sneyds, with others of their acquaintance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“There, I again say, you are wrong. You do not know your power, Micawber. It is that which will strengthen, even in this step you are about to take, the connexion between yourself and Albion.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Perfect beauty is a strong expression; but I do not retrace or qualify it: as sweet features as ever the temperate clime of Albion moulded; as pure hues of rose and lily as ever her humid gales and vapoury skies generated and screened, justified, in this instance, the term.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)