单词 | Avalon |
释义 | Avalon /av"euh lon'/, n. Celtic Legend. an island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death. Also, Avallon. [ < ML (insula) avallonis (Geoffrey of Monmouth) (island) of Avallon, lit., apple tree (island) < a British Celt s. for apple tree, c. Welsh afall (pl. collective), Middle Breton avallenn (sing.), OIr aball (fem.) < *obol-n-, c. Slavic *(j)ablani; see APPLE] |
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