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As proper nouns the difference between alexander and gay

is that alexander is a given name derived from Ancient Greek, most famously held by Alexander the Great while Gay is {{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.

As nouns the difference between alexander and gay

is that alexander is alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically species: Smyrnium olusatrum or Heracleum maximum, the cow parsnip while gay is a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.

As an adjective gay is

happy, joyful, and lively.

As a verb gay is

to make happy or cheerful.

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

    gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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