alban

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A male given name from Latin.

   “Act II, Scene I Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight”

2. özel isim Saint Alban, a Christian martyr executed in Verulamium (St Albans) in the 3rd or 4th century.

   “The first Christian martyr in Britain was called Alban.”

3. sıfat Pertaining to the ancient Latin city of Alba Longa.

   “But beside this, there existed at Lavinium another tradition, which inverts the order of things by stating that Lavinium was an Alban colony, founded by six hundred Alban families.”

4. sıfat Pertaining to Alba, or the area now covered by Scotland.

   “At some point during the Picto-Gaelic fusion, St Andrew was adopted as patron of the Alban kingdom.”

5. isim A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.