- Lake Albert ⇒
a lake in E Africa, between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda in the great Rift Valley, 660 m (2200 ft) above sea level: a source of the Nile, fed by the Victoria Nile, which leaves as the Albert Nile. Area: 5345 sq km (2064 sq miles)
Former name: Lake Mobutu
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Al•bert
(al′bərt),USA pronunciation n.
- Biographical Carl (Bert), born 1908, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- Prince (Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emanuel, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), 1819–61, consort of Queen Victoria.
- Lake. Also called Al′bert Nyan′za. a lake in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a source of the Nile. 100 mi. (160 km) long;
2061 sq. mi. (5338 sq. km);
2030 ft. (619 m) above sea level. - a male given name: from Old High German words meaning "noble'' and "bright.''
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Prince, full name Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1819–61, prince consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland
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a kind of watch chain usually attached to a waistcoat
'Albert' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Albert Edward
- Albert I
- Albert II
- Albert Lea
- Albert Nyanza
- Albert, d'
- Albertine
- Albertus Magnus
- Allingham
- Atkinson
- Baker
- Bert
- Beveridge
- Bierstadt
- Bongo
- Bose-Einstein statistics
- Botkin
- Burt
- Camus
- Charles Albert
- Charles VII
- Chevalier
- Claude
- D, d
- Delbert
- Dreiser
- Edgar
- Edward
- Edward VII
- Einstein
- Einstein equation
- Einstein theory
- Einstein's photoelectric equation
- Einsteinian
- Filene
- Finney
- Gallatin
- Gobat
- Hanotaux
- Hapsburg
- Hooton
- Johnston
- Kabalega Falls
- Kesselring
- Kramer
- Lambaréné
- Lebrun
- Leopold III
- Lipmann
- Lombardo