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Albert

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Al·bert  (lbrt), Prince 1819-1861.
German-born consort (1840-1861) of Victoria who strongly influenced the queen and was a patron of the arts, sciences, and industry.
Albert, Lake also Albert Ny·an·za  (n-nz, nyän-) Formerly also Mo·bu·to Lake (m-bt)
A shallow lake of east-central Africa in the Great Rift Valley on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was discovered in 1864 by Sir Samuel Baker and named for Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort.
albert [ˈælbət]
n
1. a kind of watch chain usually attached to a waistcoat
2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Brit a standard size of notepaper, 6 ✕ 3⅞ inches
[named after Prince Albert (1819-61), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland]
Albert [ˈælbət]
n
(Placename) Lake. a lake in E Africa, between the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre) and Uganda in the great Rift Valley, 660 m (2200 ft.) above sea level: a source of the Nile, fed by the Victoria Nile, which leaves as the Albert Nile. Area: 5345 sq.km (2064 sq. miles) Former name Lake Mobutu
Albert2
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(Biographies / Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Albert, Prince (1819-1861) M, Britishnational of birth: German, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) Prince. full name Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1819-61, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland
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Noun1.Albert - prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861)
Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel, Prince Albert
Translations
Albert [ˈælbət] N → Alberto


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Amongst dissolute and unprincipled men, of whom the Temple Order included but too many, Albert of Templestowe might be distinguished; but with this difference from the audacious Bois-Guilbert, that he knew how to throw over his vices and his ambition the veil of hypocrisy, and to assume in his exterior the fanaticism which be internally despised.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Shyness barred him from the evening gatherings, and what was going on in that house, with young bloods like Ted Pringle, Albert Parsons, Arthur Brown, and Joe Blossom (to name four of the most assiduous) exercising their fascinations at close range, he did not like to think.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered.
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