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Definition of Alexander

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

2. Noun. King of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC).

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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