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albatras — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • albatross noun A large seabird with long narrow wings and a hooked beak, found mainly over the Southern Ocean and North Pacific, famous for gliding vast distances without flapping.

Senses

albatras is used for these senses in English:

  • albatross Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
  • double eagle (golf) Three under par, one stroke short of an ace (a hole in one) on a par-five hole.

albatross — full definition

  1. noun A large seabird with long narrow wings and a hooked beak, found mainly over the Southern Ocean and North Pacific, famous for gliding vast distances without flapping.
  2. noun A heavy burden, problem, or source of guilt that someone cannot get rid of.

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