Alexander vs Mason - What's the difference?
alexander | mason |
, most famously held by (Alexander the Great).
* : Act V, Scene I:
* 1765 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy , Book IV, Chapter 18:
* 1985 , The Accidental Tourist , ISBN 0-7011-2986-7, page 170:
One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.
As nouns the difference between alexander and mason
is that alexander is alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically or heracleum maximum , the cow parsnip while mason is a freemason.As a proper noun mason is
for a stonemason.alexander
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander , till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
- 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.
- "My son's name is Alexander'," Muriel said. "Did I tell you that? I named him ' Alexander because it sounded high-class.
