Saint Albans

British  

/ ˈɔːlbənz /

noun

1. Latin name: Verulamium.  a city in SE England, in W Hertfordshire: founded in 948 _ad around the Benedictine abbey first built in Saxon times on the site of the martyrdom (about 303 _ad ) of St Alban; present abbey built in 1077; Roman ruins. Pop: 82 429 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Another day, one of his opponents was Jim Bob Williams, a therapeutic humorist from Saint Albans, W.Va.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2019

“You get the actual vibrations of the music as opposed to digital reproduction,” said Deja Vu shopper Rigel Fuller, 22, of Saint Albans, Vermont.

From Washington Times • Jan. 23, 2017

One of the best places to experience Champlain’s waters is Burton Island state park, near Saint Albans.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2015

The site of the cathedral is Washington's highest point, Mount Saint Albans, a thickly wooded hill 400 feet above the Potomac and northwest of the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cotton, the facetious poet, attempted to go from London to the Peak with a single pair, but found at Saint Albans that the journey would be insupportably tedious, and altered his Plan.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron