Alice vs Ida - What's the difference?
alice | ida |
popular in England since the Middle Ages .
* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
* 1871 :
* 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
(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 ,
* 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
* 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
A city in North Dakota.
A city in Texas.
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* 1809 , Woman, or, Ida of Athens , p.127:
* 1938 (Graham Greene), Brighton Rock , Compact Books 1993, ISBN 0749317256, page 16:
* 2002 (Joyce Carol Oates), I'l Take You There , Fourth Estate 2003, ISBN 0007146442, page 18:
(greekmyth) Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.
As a noun alice
is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment).As a verb ida is
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English
Proper noun
(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)- That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
- "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."
- 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.
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- 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.
- In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
- "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
Derived terms
* Alice band * Alice blue * Alice in WonderlandSynonyms
* Party A (placeholder) * Alice Springs (city)See also
* Bob *Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic ?d "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Ida !!!"
- "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."
- Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida ".
- "That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida ." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity.
- "Ida'" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "'''Ida'''". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "' Ida " with "I" - - -