Victoria vs Alex - What's the difference?
victoria | alex |
(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.
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* 2006 (Kate Atkinson), One Good Turn (Black Swan(2007), ISBN 9780552772440), page 81:
*:Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex' Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym ' Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say.
, short form of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, or a spelling variant of Alix.
* 2008 , The Northern Clemency (Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799), page 588:
As proper nouns the difference between victoria and alex
is that victoria is the Roman goddess of victory; equivalent to the Greek goddess Nike while Alex is a given name derived from Ancient Greek.As a noun victoria
is a kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.victoria
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.
Derived terms
* Victoria Day * VIC / Vic / (abbreviation)See also
* (Queen Victoria)alex
English
Proper noun
(es)- 'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.'
- 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'