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ALBERT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861)
Synonyms:
Albert; Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel; Prince Albert
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
prince consort (a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign)
Context examples:
You say that you have five letters which compromise the Countess d’Albert.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Relativistic speeds are those approaching the speed of light, as described by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)
It is affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and became an NCI-designated Cancer Center in 1992.
(Albert Einstein Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
“My dear Mr. Holmes, In accordance with the scheme which we had formed in order to test our theories” — “the ‘we’ is rather fine, Watson, is it not?” — “I went down to the Albert Dock yesterday at 6 P.M., and boarded the S.S. May Day, belonging to the Liverpool, Dublin, and London Steam Packet Company.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went down to the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The goal of the Albert Einstein Cancer Center is to foster basic, clinical, population- based, and translational research in an effort to understand better the origins of cancer and its effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
(Albert Einstein Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
He wore rather baggy grey shepherd’s check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
