Alice
Americannoun
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a city in southern Texas.
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the Alice. Alice Springs.
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a first name: from a Germanic word meaning “of noble rank.”
noun
Example Sentences
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If a single power source could be said to have fueled the creative work of Alice Munro, the only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in literature, it would be her ambivalence about her mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
And in the culminating piece that gives the collection its title, she writes of the catastrophic betrayal that floats out of sight in the later writings of Alice Munro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Even if Alice were to decide that they wanted to make a TV show about another character in the universe of ‘Heartstopper’ and they wanted us to cameo or something, then, hey, maybe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Miss Alice leaned forward into the trolley aisle, causing a man to adjust slightly to give her the space, and shook her head.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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