Allison
Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. A male given name.
    • 1994 Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills, Scribner's, ISBN 0684195569, page 81:
      "Allison?" Surely that was a girl's name.
      "It's after Davey Allison, the race car driver. He got killed right before the baby was born. Tracy and me wanted to honor his memory." It was a precise little speech. She must have explained the name many times.
  3. A female given name.
    • 1956 Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book One, Chapter 4,
      Allison MacKenzie's father, for whom the child had been named, died when she was three years old.
  4. A small city/county seat in Butler County, Iowa.



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