Alice vs Maya - What's the difference?
alice | maya |
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.
A member of a Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala in the 4th to 10th centuries.
A descendant of these people.
Any of the Mayan languages, such as and Yucatec.
of modern usage.
* 1988 , Picasso, Creator and Destroyer , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671454463, page 240
In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
used in India.
* 1993 , A Suitable Boy , Phoenix House, ISBN 1897580207, page 891
As a noun alice
is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment).As a verb maya is
.alice
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.
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.
- 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
Self-designation of the Yucatec Mayas.Proper noun
(wikipedia Maya) (en-proper noun)See also
* Aztec * Inca * Mesoamerica * Olmec * ToltecExternal links
Ethnologue report on the Maya languages
Etymology 2
From Maria, ultimately from (etyl), and from Maia, from (etyl).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la Concepción. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, that con'' in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound like Maya'''. "'''Maya'''!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." So '''Maya''' it was from then on - ' Maya Walter.
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya'. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter ' Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities.
- - - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'