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Alice vs Elise - What's the difference?

alice | elise |

As proper nouns the difference between alice and elise

is that alice is {{given name|female|from=Germanic|}} popular in England since the Middle Ages while Elise is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}.

alice

English

Proper noun

(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)
  • popular in England since the Middle Ages .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
    • That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
  • * 1871 :
    • "My name is Alice , but - "
    "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
    "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
    "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
  • * 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
    • She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
  • (cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
  • (Alice Springs), Australia.
  • * 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays , page 17,
    • At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
  • * 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
    • In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
  • * 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
    • "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
  • A city in North Dakota.
  • A city in Texas.

    • Derived terms

    * Alice band * Alice blue * Alice in Wonderland

    Synonyms

    * Party A (placeholder) * Alice Springs (city)

    Related terms

    * given names : Adelaide, Alicia, Alison, Allison, Alyssa, Heidi

    See also

    * Bob *

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    elise

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 2001 Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf , Allison & Busby, ISBN 0749005114, page 34:
    • "Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."

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