Alexis vs Alexander - What's the difference?
alexis | alexander |
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* 1877 , Act I:
, transferred from the male name and used since the 1940s.
* 1990 , , Vespers , Mandarin (1991), ISBN 0749305967, page 120:
, 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:
As a proper noun alexis
is .As a noun alexander is
alexanders: any of various umbellifers, often specifically or heracleum maximum , the cow parsnip.alexis
English
Proper noun
(wikipedia Alexis) (es)- To the maid of his choice, / With a heart palpitating, / Comes Alexis the brave.
- He wondered how parents who had named their daughter Alexis could possibly have known she'd turn out to be such a beauty.
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.