albatross

«albatross» in Mova's school dictionary: a very large seabird with long narrow wings that can… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an albatross, albatrosses)

meaning for a pupil

1) An albatross is a very large seabird with long narrow wings that can glide over the ocean for a long time. tree →

2) (figurative) An albatross (around your neck) is a problem or burden you cannot escape. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons: albatrosses have the largest wingspans of any living bird and live over the Southern Ocean, near New Zealand and Australia. In literature, an old poem tells of a sailor punished for shooting an albatross, so it became a symbol of bad luck or guilt. In golf, an albatross is three under par on a hole.

examples

• The albatross can glide for hours without flapping. tree →
• An albatross has a wingspan over three metres. tree →
• Albatrosses are found near New Zealand. tree →
• Plastic in the sea harms albatrosses. tree →
• That old debt is an albatross around his neck. tree →
• Albatrosses spend most of their lives at sea. tree →

note

Plural: albatrosses. The «burden» meaning comes from a famous old poem. In golf: birdie = 1 under, eagle = 2 under, albatross = 3 under par.

In the corpora

• Swans, many parrots and albatrosses keep the same partner for years, and some albatross pairs stay together for 50 years or more.
• In Hawaii, tiger sharks gather every summer when young albatrosses learn to fly and drop into the sea.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «albatross» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.