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  Alison

  noun

  a first name, form of Alice.
• alison
  alison

  noun

  another name for sweet alyssum

Alison

American  

[al-uh-suhn] / ˈæl ə sən /

noun

1. a first name, form of Alice.

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alison British  

/ ˈælɪsən /

noun

1. another name for sweet alyssum

2. a rare compact annual, Alyssum alyssoides, having small yellow flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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Etymology

Origin of alison

altered from _alyssum

Example Sentences

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Recently, cookbook author and food-world oracle Alison Roman gave Loonen her social-media stamp of approval after discovering it at Two Bunch Palms hotel in Desert Hot Springs, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

Alison remembers her mother collecting melted bottles and warped pans left by the Bel-Air fire that tore through Laurel Canyon shortly before the family relocated there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

For some reason I imagine it to be something like Alison, but mostly I just think of her as the running girl.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

"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)

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)

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)

"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)