Alexandra
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- A female given name.
- 1863 Alfred Tennyson: A Welcome to Alexandra :
- Sea-king's daughter from over the sea, / Alexandra! / Saxon and Norman and Dane are we, / But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee, / Alexandra!
- 2008 Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 588
- 'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.'
- 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'
- 1863 Alfred Tennyson: A Welcome to Alexandra :
- (astronomy) 54 Alexandra, a main belt asteroid; named for German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
- A town in Central Otago, New Zealand.
- French: Alexandra
- German: Alexandra
- Italian: Alessandra
- Portuguese: Alexandra
- Russian: Алекса́ндра
- Spanish: Alejandra
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