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What is the difference between alec and alexander?

alec | alexander |

Alec is a derived term of alexander.


As nouns the difference between alec and alexander

is that alec is an anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried while alexander is alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically smyrnium olusatrum'' or ''heracleum maximum , the cow parsnip.

alec

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.

    • See also

    * Alex * Alexander * Aleck * smart aleck

    Anagrams

    * English diminutives of male given names

    alexander

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , most famously held by (Alexander the Great).
  • * : Act V, Scene I:
    • Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander , till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
  • * 1765 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy , Book IV, Chapter 18:
    • And for my own part, said my uncle Toby, though I should blush to boast of myself, Trim - yet had my name been Alexander , I could have done no more at Namur than my duty.
  • * 1985 , The Accidental Tourist , ISBN 0-7011-2986-7, page 170:
    • "My son's name is Alexander'," Muriel said. "Did I tell you that? I named him ' Alexander because it sounded high-class.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, Al , Alec , Aleck , Alex , Alistair , Lex , Sandro , Sandy , Sasha , Xan , Xander}}

    Related terms

    * Alexandra and its variants