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Definition of Alexandrian

1. Noun. A resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt).

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire.

Definition of Alexandrian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

Definition of Alexandrian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt. ¹

2. Adjective. (not comparable) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alexandrian

Alexander Selkirk Alexander VI Alexander Wilson Alexander Woollcott Alexander of Tralles Alexander the Great Alexander the Liberator Alexanders Alexandra Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Yersin Alexandria Alexandria senna Alexandrian (current term) Alexandrian laurel Alexandrian senna Alexandrina Alexandrine

Alexandros Alexandroupoli Alexia Alexis Alexis Carrel Alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville Alexius Aleyrodes Aleyrodidae

Literary usage of Alexandrian

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

1. Ancient History by Philip Van Ness Myers (1916)
"THE Alexandrian AGE (300-I46 BC) 350. Character of the Literature. The Alexandrian period of Greek literature embraces the time between the break-up of ..."

2. Municipal and Institutional Libraries of Indiana: History, Conditon and by William Elmer Henry, Indiana Louisiana purchase exposition commission (1904)
"May 18, 1895, the following persons organized the Alexandrian Library under the ... The organization grew out of the Alexandrian Literary Club which was ..."

3. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"We often find the Alexandrian group opposed to all other documents, often the Alexandrian and Syrian groups combined in opposition to the others, ..."

4. Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by Alexander Jones (1999)
"Table 3: Conversion between Alexandrian and Julian calendar dates. The equivalences in the following table are valid for all dates except those that fall ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It must be admitted, however, that originality was not a characteristic of the Alexandrian age, which was stronger in criticism, grammar and science than in ..."

6. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"It was printed in facsimile, 1786-1821. Alexandrian CODEX, a MS. of the Alexandrian ERA, sec . ... Alexandrian LIBRARY, soc under Alexandrian SCHOOLS OF ..."

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