noun

• A poetic or literary term for Britain or England (often used in referring to ancient or historical times)

  ‘the ancient religious sites of Albion’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It all begins in the fabled land of Albion, where our young hero must notch up three good deeds to raise money to buy his sister a birthday gift.’
  • ‘The very name Albion attests to the complex nature of the origins of the peoples and the cultures of the islands we inhabit.’
  • ‘For Iraqis of all political persuasions, Kuwait had been stolen from the motherland by perfidious Albion - Great Britain, the former colonial power.’