Verulam en · PROPN
Etymology
Latin Verulamia, being the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.
Meanings
- (UK) Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans.
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(UK) Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans. ▸ Francis Bacon (1561–1626), 1st Baron Verulam.
Plato the wise, and large-brow'd Verulam, / The first of those who know.
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 146:
- (UK) a placename ▸ Synonym of Verulamium (“ancient Roman town”). A town in Britannia, Roman Empire; near the modern city of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- a placename ▸ A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- a placename ▸ A former township in Ontario, Canada, now the single-tier municipality of Kawartha Lakes.
Synonyms
Verulam Township (township) · Township of Verulam (township) · Verulamium