albany
/ˈɔːl.bə.ni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.81 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A prominent duchy bestowed upon younger sons of the royal family, belonging first to the Scottish peerage and then (after the 1707 Act of Union) to the British. It is currently suspended.
Countable; Uncountable
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The capital city of the state of New York in the United States, and the county seat of Albany County, New York.
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A Hudson's Bay Company trading post in Ontario and the community that remains at its site.
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A sizable city, the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States (76,939 during the 2000 census).
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A former district in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Example Sentences
- "Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *albʰósder. Proto-Celtic *albiyū Old Irish Albubor. Medieval Latin Albaniabor. Middle English Albany English Albany From Middle English from Medieval Latin Albania (“Scotland”), from Scottish Gaelic Alba (“Scotland”), from Old Irish Albu (“Britain, Scotland”), from Proto-Celtic *albiyū (“world”, literally “white (place)”) (compare Old Welsh elbid (“world”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰos (“white”), possibly in reference to the White Cliffs of Dover. Doublet of Albania.