Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: albany
IPA transcription: ['ɔlbəni]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Albany, capital_of_New_York
    Meaning: state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river
Usage examples
  • Adelaide Curtis, Albany, New York.
  • When mother and father were alive I lived in Albany.
  • St. Louis, Albany, Indianapolis, Nashville, and other cities held memorial meetings.
  • She had a fashionable young lady with her, a stranger to me, as well as a Miss Somebody else, from Albany, whose name I did not catch.
  • But the eyes of this history can follow him westward, by Cornhill, Cheapside, Fleet Street, and the Strand, to Piccadilly and the Albany.
  • The route lay through Indianapolis, Dayton, Cleveland, Columbus, Buffalo, Albany, New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to Washington.
  • Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the province of New York, was included in the county of Albany previously to the war of the separation.
  • Now, I was aware that Mrs. Adelaide Curtis, of Albany, was the artist's wife's mother,--but then I looked upon the whole address as a mystification, intended especially for myself.
  • Beside editing the "New Yorker," he had also taken charge of the "Jeffersonian," a weekly campaign paper published at Albany, and the "Log-Cabin," established to aid in the election of General Harrison to the Presidency.
  • In his latter days, when separated from his wife, the Princess Louisa, Prince Charles sent for his illegitimate daughter by Miss Walkinshaw; created her Duchess of Albany, made her mistress of his household, and left her by will almost everything that he possessed, including such family jewels and plate as were still in his possession.