Alison
noun
a first name, form of Alice.
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Alison
American
[al-uh-suhn]
/ ˈæl ə sən /
noun
alison
British
/ ˈælɪsən /
noun
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another name for sweet alyssum
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a rare compact annual, Alyssum alyssoides, having small yellow flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
Etymology
Origin of alison
altered from alyssum
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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
Senior Coroner Alison Mulch recorded the cause of death as Alzheimer's disease, contributed to by CTE, along with another neurodegenerative condition and cerebrovascular disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Myriad ledgers record artworks and exhibitions alongside the income that sustained Saar and her then-young daughters — Alison, Lezley and Tracye — after her 1970 divorce from Richard Saar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In Coventry, Alison considered herself lucky not to have been killed.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
“He must really like you if he sent you jewelry,” Alison said.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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)
"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)
"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)
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)
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