Alison
[al-uh-suh n]
- a female given name, form of Alice.
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Contemporary Examples
When his agent asked if he missed his wife, his mind flashed to an image of Alison.
Her relationship with him had failed, Alison told Cole, because he reminded her of their dead son.
Alison, meanwhile, had gone to a yoga retreat with her hippy-dippy mother.
Most critically, the split perspectives of Noah and Alison need to marry more elegantly.
And yet, could Alison Grimes go around the state bragging about this?
Historical Examples
Alison resists, however, not out of virtue, but because she prefers Nicholas.
A Literary History of the English PeopleJean Jules Jusserand
But, as he says, Macaulay and Alison are still bulkier; yet they sell.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two VolumesEdward FitzGerald
And all the time they were dressing, Alison was telling the others what they were to say and do.
The Magic WorldEdith Nesbit
Aunt Alison never would have written of it like that, if it had been.'
Robin RedbreastMary Louisa Molesworth
Aunt Alison wouldn't mind your taking her in the morning for once.
Robin RedbreastMary Louisa Molesworth
alison
- sweet alison another name for sweet alyssum
- small alison a rare compact annual, Alyssum alyssoides, having small yellow flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
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Word Origin
altered from alyssum
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Word Origin and History for alison
Alison
fem. proper name, from French Alison, a diminutive of Alice.
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