different between cormorants vs albatross

English

Noun

cormorants

1. plural of cormorant

English

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican, gannet, albatross”), probably derived from Arabic ??????????? (al-?a???s, “the diver”) (compare Alcatraz); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic ??????????? (al-q?d?s), from Ancient Greek ????? (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”). Not derived from modern Arabic ???????? (qa?ras, “albatross”), which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æl.b??t??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æl.b??t??s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?æl.b??t??s/

Noun

albatross (plural albatross or albatrosses)

1. Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
2. Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
3. (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.

Synonyms

• gooney bird
• gooney
• goonie

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• eagle
• condor
• ostrich

Translations

Etymology 2

See albatross around one’s neck.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æl.b??t??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æl.b??t??s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?æl.b??t??s/

Noun

albatross (plural albatrosses)

1. (figuratively) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
   • 2006 March 13, Richard Lugar, speech to the Brookings Institution,

     […] energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.

Synonyms

• albatross around one's neck

Translations

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

albatross m (definite singular albatrossen, indefinite plural albatrosser, definite plural albatrossene)

1. albatross

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

albatross m (definite singular albatrossen, indefinite plural albatrossar, definite plural albatrossane)

1. albatross

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?albatr?s/, /?albat?r?s/, /?albat?r?s/

Noun

albatross c (definite plural albatrossen, indefinite plural albatrosser, definite plural albatrosserna)

1. albatross
2. (golf) an albatross or double eagle (a score of three strokes under par for a hole)