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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#m1)

2) (figurative) An albatross (around your neck) is a problem or burden you cannot escape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#x1)
- An albatross has a wingspan over three metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#x2)
- Albatrosses are found near New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#x3)
- Plastic in the sea harms albatrosses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#x4)
- That old debt is an albatross around his neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#x5)
- Albatrosses spend most of their lives at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house/11/)
- [In Hawaii, tiger sharks gather every summer when young albatrosses learn to fly and drop into the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «albatross» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/albatross/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.