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 better choice is Mr. Adams’s first opera, “Nixon in China,” a collaboration with the librettist Alice Goodman and the director Peter Sellars that had its premiere, in Houston, in 1987.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
Beginning in kindergarten, children’s knowledge of numbers becomes more formal and symbol-based, according to Alice Klein, a developmental psychologist who studies early math screening and intervention.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026
With their employers’ two households combined, Charlie and Alice would be able to live and work together as a married couple.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
Written by Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett and Kelly Marcel, “Practical Magic 2” is based on the 2021 novel “The Book of Magic,” the fourth and final installment of author Alice Hoffman’s “Practical Magic” series.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Ophie asked all of a sudden, interrupting whatever Miss Alice had been on about.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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