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alexander | napoleon |

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)
  • , 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}}

    napoleon

    English

    Proper noun

    (wikipedia Napoleon) (en proper noun)
  • .
  • sometimes given in honor of the French emperor.
  • Derived terms

    * Napoleonesque * Napoleonism * Napoleonist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A twenty-franc gold coin, once used in France
  • The foremost authority or leader in a given field
  • * 1893 ,
  • He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
  • * 2011 , Robert Morgan, Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
  • Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump.
  • * 1896 , J.S. Ogilvie, "A Biographical Sketch of William McKinley." The Life and Speeches of William McKinley.
  • He [William McKinley] has been called the Napoleon' of protection, as other men have been called ' Napoleons of finance.
  • (uncountable) The card game (nap)
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