Alexander vs Napoleon - What's the difference?
alexander | napoleon |
, 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:
A twenty-franc gold coin, once used in France
The foremost authority or leader in a given field
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* 2011 , Robert Morgan, Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
* 1896 , J.S. Ogilvie, "A Biographical Sketch of William McKinley." The Life and Speeches of William McKinley.
(uncountable) The card game (nap)
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As a noun alexander
is alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically or heracleum maximum , the cow parsnip.As a proper noun napoleon is
napoleon ( bonaparte ).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.
Derived terms
{{der3, Al , Alec , Aleck , Alex , Alistair , Lex , Sandro , Sandy , Sasha , Xan , Xander}}napoleon
English
Derived terms
* Napoleonesque * Napoleonism * NapoleonistNoun
(en noun)- He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
- Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump.
- He [William McKinley] has been called the Napoleon' of protection, as other men have been called ' Napoleons of finance.