Alexander vs Nathaniel - What's the difference?
alexander | nathaniel |
, 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:
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* 1594 William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew : Act IV, Scene I:
* 1837 :
* 2010 , A Room Swept White , Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0-340-98062-0, page 102:
As a noun alexander
is alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically or heracleum maximum , the cow parsnip.As a proper noun nathaniel is
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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}}nathaniel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
- And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel.
- ‘What’s your Christian name, Sir?’ angrily inquired the little judge. ‘Nathaniel', Sir.’ ‘Daniel—any other name?’ ‘'''Nathaniel''', sir—my Lord, I mean.’ ‘'''Nathaniel''' Daniel, or Daniel '''Nathaniel'''?’ ‘No, my Lord, only ' Nathaniel —not Daniel at all.’ ‘What did you tell me it was Daniel for, then, sir?’ inquired the judge.
- Marcella and Nathaniel . Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with.
