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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“The Importance of Being Ernest” and “Alice’s Adventures Underground,” in 2011 and 2016 respectively, proved each funnier and more outrageous musical spectacle than the last.
From Los Angeles Times
All have some Alice in a different wonderland about them.
From Los Angeles Times
Her part, like that of Alice in Barry’s previous opera, is enlivened by delightfully squeaky high notes in unexpected places.
From Los Angeles Times
"The findings highlight how assumptions about livestock intelligence may reflect gaps in observation rather than genuine cognitive limits," says Alice Auersperg, a cognitive biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
From Science Daily
Well, maybe that's pushing the comparison, but Wilson's flowing locks now require an Alice band like Bale's.
From BBC
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