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(ælbətrɒs, US -trɔːs)
Word forms: plural albatrosses
1. countable noun
An albatross is a very large white seabird.
2. countable noun
If you describe something or someone as an albatross around your neck, you mean that they cause you great problems from which you cannot escape, or they prevent you from doing what you want to do.
[disapproval]
Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.

albatross in British English

(ˈælbəˌtrɒs)
noun
1. 
any large oceanic bird of the genera Diomedea and Phoebetria, family Diomedeidae, of cool southern oceans: order Procellariiformes (petrels). They have long narrow wings and are noted for a powerful gliding flight
See also wandering albatross
2. 
a constant and inescapable burden or handicap
an albatross of debt
3.  golf
a score of three strokes under par for a hole
Word origin
C17: from Portuguese alcatraz pelican, from Arabic al-ghattās, from al the + ghattās white-tailed sea eagle; influenced by Latin albus white: C20 in sense 2, from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

albatross in American English

(ˈælbəˌtrɔs; ˈælbəˌtrɑs)
nounWord forms: plural ˈalbaˌtrosses or ˈalbaˌtross
1. 
any of a family (Diomedeidae) of large, web-footed tubenose birds found chiefly in the South Seas: they have long, narrow wings and a long, hooked beak
2. 
a burden or source of distress, esp. one that impairs effective action
often in the phrase an albatross around one's neck
Word origin
altered, prob. infl. by albus, white < Sp alcatraz, lit., pelican < Port, pelican, orig., bucket < Ar al qādūs, water-wheel basket, scoop < Gr kados, cask, jar; prob. < Heb kad, water jug; (sense 2) from the bird used as a symbol of guilt in a poem by Coleridge

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Examples of 'albatross' in a sentence
albatross

It hit the green and disappeared into the hole for an albatross.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Or is it just a giant albatross around my neck?
Christianity Today (2000)
Just the one albatross around your neck?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Penguins skip from wave to wave while wandering albatross carve graceful paths across the foaming peaks.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Is the wingspan of the wandering albatross really as impossibly wide as that bottom plank?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It will stay with me for the rest of my life and be an albatross around my neck.
The Sun (2013)
It's not an albatross around my neck.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The first time a wandering albatross glides into view and regards the ship with its soft brown eyes is the stuff of dreams.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
WHO needs an albatross around the neck?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Any woman who gets obsessed with such things is an albatross around the neck of true women's liberation.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They marvelled at wandering albatross.
Hyland, Paul Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994)
Instead of carrying the nation's hopes, he has an albatross around his neck.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
 Wandering albatross: my bird.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
For those who study the science of aerodynamics the albatross has long been a, well, albatross around the neck.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

idiom

See an albatross around your neck

Nearby words of
albatross

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albatross

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