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Alice

American  
[al-is] / ˈæl ɪs /

noun

  1. a city in southern Texas.

  2. the Alice. Alice Springs.

  3. a first name: from a Germanic word meaning “of noble rank.”


Alice British  
/ ˈælɪs /

noun

  1. slang short for Alice Springs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Alice, meanwhile, spirited her grandchildren out of France at the start of the occupation in a fearless escape by boat to England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The following year, they asked the artist for a joint portrait of their two youngest girls, Alice and Elisabeth, who were by then 5 and 6 years old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritising biodiversity over crop yield.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

When Alice was unemployed Savage covered her entrance cost every single time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Alice began being important right away in the first grade because she was the only first-grade kid who had ever been inside the teachers’ room.

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