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Alice
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alice ALICE
English
Etymology
en :inh enm:Alice<ety:bor<fro:Alys>> 1
From en enm Alice, from en fro Alys, fro Alice, from en goh Adalheid, proposed to derive from en gem-pro - gem-pro *aþalaz noble *haiduz character 1. en Adelaide.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæl.ɪs/
en en-us-Alice.ogg US
en EN-AU ck1 Alice.ogg AU
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Alice.wav
en ælɪs 2
Proper noun
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en female Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.
en 1871 w:Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 6 "My name is Alice, but—""It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?""Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully."Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
en 1968 w:Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House xiv Delacorte Press She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
en Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/germany-government-collapse-explainer-intl/index.html 2024-11-07 Party leader Alice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.
en cryptography physics The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
en Party A
en Bob Eve Mallory Peggy Victor
en 1978 V.S. Bagad; I.A. Dhotre Computer Networks https://books.google.com/books?id=ynZHqsjpnVcC&lpg=RA1-PA31&dq=%22Alice%22&pg=RA6-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22Alice%22&f=false Technical Publications 9788184315639 Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, , and sends the encrypted nonce, back to Bob.
en 2009 N. David Mermin It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity Princeton University Press 9781400830848 3K1zr8XrtZoC 19 Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.
en AU slang often with "the" The city of Alice Springs, Australia.
en 2002 Sylvia Lawson Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays http://books.google.com/books?id=RioNDmxhskUC&pg=PA17&dq=%22alice%22+australia+-%22alice+-springs%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=IaGzTs-QHqyHmQX3zpXZAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwADhk#v=onepage&q=%22alice%22%20australia%20-%22alice%20-springs%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false 17 At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day. they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
en 2003 Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills; quoting Olive Veverbrants Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice 27 In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice.
en 2004 Larry Habegger Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories 7 "Don't waste yer time in The Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
en locality in the carea/Clarence Valley north eastern s/New South Wales c/Australia.
en city s/North Dakota.
en city/county seat co/Jim Wells County s/Texas.
Derived terms
en Alice band Alice blue Alice in Wonderland Alice's fern Alice Springs Glen Alice
Related terms
en given names Adelaide Alicia Alison Allison Alyssa Heidi
Translations
female given name
Arabic: ar أَلِيس f
Catalan: ca Alícia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 愛麗絲 Àilìsī
Czech: cs Alice f
Danish: da Alice
Dutch: nl Alice f, nl Adelheid f historical
Finnish: fi Aliisa, fi Alisa; fi Liisa
French: fr Alice f
Galician: gl Alicia f, gl Adela f
German: de Alice f
Greek: el Αλίκη f
Greenlandic: kl Aaliit
Icelandic: is Lísa f
Italian: it Alice f
Japanese: ja アリス Arisu
Korean: ko ^앨리스
Latin: la Alicia f, la Adelaidis f
Latvian: lv Alise f
Lithuanian: lt Alisa f
Norwegian: no Alice
Polish: pl Alicja f
Portuguese: pt Alice f
Russian: ru Али́са f, ru Э́лис f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Алиса f
Latin: sh Alisa f
Spanish: es Alicia f
Swahili: sw Elisi
Swedish: sv Alice
Turkish: tr Alis
Ukrainian: uk Аліса f
Volapük: vo Lälid
Welsh: cy Alys f
message sender in cryptography
Finnish: fi Alice
German: de Alice f
Portuguese: pt Alice f
Russian: ru Алиса f, ru Элис f
See also
en Bob
Further reading
Alice (given name)
Alice and Bob
Alice Springs
Alice, North Dakota
Alice, Texas
Anagrams
en aceil Alcie Celia Licea ileac
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb en Alice, from ceb fro Alis, fro Alice, from ceb goh Adalheid, from goh adal noble + goh heit kind, sort.
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb female English
the titular character of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
ceb Fictional characters
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
cs female Alice
Declension
f
Danish
Etymology
From da en Alice.
Proper noun
da female
French
Etymology
fr fro Alis, fro Alice, from fr goh Adalheid.
Pronunciation
fr Fr-Alice.ogg
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Alice.wav France
Proper noun
f s
fr female Alice
Related terms
fr Adélaïde Adèle Adeline Alicia Alix
Anagrams
fr celai
fr Célia
German
Etymology
de en Alice. de Adelheid.
Pronunciation
de /aˈliː.sə/ [ʔaˈliː.sə] Standard Northern
de De-Alice.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de /aˈliːs/ Austrian German
de De-Alice3.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de /ˈɛlɪs/
de De-Alice2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de /aˈlɪtʃə/
de De-Alice4.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de A li ce
Proper noun
de proper noun
de female
Italian
Pronunciation
Alìce
Proper noun
f
it female Alice
Anagrams
it aceil Cilea acile calie celai celia elica laice
Norwegian
Etymology
From no en Alice.
Proper noun
no proper noun
no female
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :bor en:Alice + 1
Pronunciation
pt A li ce
Proper noun
f +
pt female Alice
pt cryptography en Alice (an entity sending a message)
Swedish
Etymology
From sv en Alice. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1841.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Alice.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 32 481 females with the given name Alice living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Alice + 1
Pronunciation
Alis A.lice
Proper noun
Alis
tl female English