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• alba
  alba

  noun

  a Provençal troubadour poem or love song, typically about the parting of lovers at dawn.
• Alba
  Alba

  noun

  Fernando Alvarez de Toledo Duke of, 1508–82, Spanish general and third Duke of Alba; suppressed a Protestant rebellion in the Netherlands in 1567.
• Alba.
  Alba.

  abbreviation

  Alberta.

alba

¹ American  

[ahl-buh, al-] / ˈɑl bə, ˈæl- /

noun

1. a Provençal troubadour poem or love song, typically about the parting of lovers at dawn.

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Alba ² American  

[al-buh, ahl-bah] / ˈæl bə, ˈɑl bɑ /

noun

1. Fernando Alvarez de Toledo Duke of, 1508–82, Spanish general and third Duke of Alba; suppressed a Protestant rebellion in the Netherlands in 1567.

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Alba. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Alberta.

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Alba British  

/ ˈalβa /

noun

1. See Alva

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Etymology

Origin of alba

1815–25; < Old Provençal: dawn < Latin, feminine of albus white

Example Sentences

They promise opportunities for high-paying, short-term alba, as part-time jobs are known here, from the German word for “job,” arbeit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2021

This pure white variety of death cap,Amanita phalloides var. alba, resembles many edible species, especially when young.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2014

The linea alba is a white, fibrous band that is made of the bilateral rectus sheaths that join at the anterior midline of the body.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Browning's alba opens with a panoramic view and an optimistic, open-air flourish.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2013

Perhaps the best are grandiflora, very large and brilliant; conchiflora, yellow blotched with purple; Wheeleri, deep red; and alba, pure white spotted with purple.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by Weathers, John