Definition of Alexander

1. Noun. European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb.

Exact synonyms: Alexanders, Black Lovage, Horse Parsley, Smyrnium Olusatrum
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Smyrnium, Smyrnium

2. Noun. King of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC).
Exact synonyms: Alexander The Great
Generic synonyms: Conqueror, Vanquisher
Derivative terms: Alexandrian

Definition of Alexander

1. Proper noun. (given name male from=Ancient Greek), most famously held by Wikipedia:Alexander the Great Alexander the Great. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹

3. Noun. Alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically ''Smyrnium olusatrum'' or ''Heracleum maximum'', the cow parsnip ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alexander

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alexander

Aleurites
Aleurites fordii
Aleurites moluccana
Aleut
Aleutian
Aleutian Islander
Aleutian Islands
Aleutians
Aleutic
Aleuts
Aleve
Alex
Alex Boncayao Brigade
Alex Haley
Alexa
Alexander
Alexander's deafness
Alexander's disease
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
Alexander Archipelago
Alexander Bell
Alexander Calder
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander I
Alexander II
Alexander III
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Melville Bell

Literary usage of Alexander

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"A subsequent bequest by alexander Simpson of ... Robert Gordon, his Hospital aud his College (by alexander Walker!, privately printed, 1886. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"alexander, with her consent, married the daughter of a Patrician ;M but his respect for his father-in-law, and love for the empress, were inconsistent with ..."

3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Whilst he was upon earth, alexander the Great was the only hero whom this ... He assumed the name and ensigns of alexander formed a Macedonian phalanx of ..."

4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"Was alexander Indeed Great? § 6. The Successors of A lexander. § 7. ... alexander as a. Portent of World Unity. §1 THE true hero of the story of alexander ..."

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