Alison
noun
a first name, form of Alice.
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Alison
American
[al-uh-suhn]
/ ˈæl ə sən /
noun
alison
British
/ ˈælɪsən /
noun
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another name for sweet alyssum
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a rare compact annual, Alyssum alyssoides, having small yellow flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
Etymology
Origin of alison
altered from alyssum
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Two other daughters followed: Alison in 1956 and Tracye in 1961.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Alison Des Forges, then a senior adviser to Human Rights Watch, pointed to genocide inversion as a central means of justifying the genocide against the Tutsis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Before she learned to speak, Alison says she learned to make things: “It was our first language.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In Coventry, Alison considered herself lucky not to have been killed.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
I relished the sight of high schoolers mingling with contemporary artists like John Legend, Justin Timberlake, and Alison Krauss as well as legends like Smokey Robinson and Patti LaBelle.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Treading lightly by his side, she smelled the honeysuckle scent of the sweet alison which she had carried idly away in her hand.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"The Bearnais?" queried Claire, playing with the sweet alison; "I wonder where he has his camp now?"
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"This will serve you better, if you must take to eating grass like an ox," said the Professor of Eloquence, reaching out his hand and plucking a sprig of sweet alison, which grew everywhere about.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
For at that dead season of the year, sweet alison was almost their only joy.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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