Alice vs Victoria - What's the difference?
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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.
(Roman god) The Roman goddess of victory; equivalent to the Greek goddess Nike.
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* 1838 , Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign , April 1838, pages 512-513:
*:: * George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
* 1985 Dan Simmons: Song of Kali : ISBN 031286583X pages 4, 17:
One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
(historical, Australia) The British colony in what is now the Australian state of Victoria.
The capital of Seychelles.
Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
A rural municipality in Manitoba
Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.
The City of Victoria, a settlement in Hong Kong often referred to as its capital
A town in Grenada
A city in Texas
(label) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
As nouns the difference between alice and victoria
is that alice is (military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment) while victoria is victory.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.
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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
(wikipedia Victoria)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria' the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears,* although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious. Let us hope, and we have reason to hope, that the Queen will nationalize that of ' Victoria , and make it the theme of song and history with that of Elizabeth.
- When I had first told him the name we'd chosen for our daughter, Abe had suggested that it was a pretty damn waspy title for the offspring of an Indian princess and a Chicago pollock.- - -
- I never would have chosen the name "Victoria'" but was secretly delighted by it. Amrita first suggested it one hot day in July and we treated it as a joke. It seemed that one of her earliest memories was of arriving by train at '''Victoria''' Station in Bombay. That huge edifice - one of the remnants of the British Raj, which evidently still defines India - had always filled Amrita with a sense of awe. Since that time, the name ' Victoria had evoked an echo of beauty, elegance and mystery in her.