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English
Etymology
French and English contraction of Old High German Adalheidis; from adal "noble" + heid "sort, kind".
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-Alice.ogg|Audio (US)
Proper noun
en-proper noun
- given name|female|from Germanic| popular in England since Middle Ages.
- The main character in w:Lewis Carroll|Lewis Carroll's books w:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and w:Through the Looking-Glass|Through the Looking-Glass.
- In various fields such as cryptography and physics, a conventional name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
Translations
trans-top|female given name
Czech: Alice
Danish: #Danish|Alice
Finnish: Aliisa, Alisa
French: #French|Alice
German: #German|Alice
Italian: Alice
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Norwegian: #Norwegian|Alice
Polish: Alicja
Portuguese: Alice
Russian: �ли�а
Spanish: Alicia
Swedish: #Swedish|Alice
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trans-top|main character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Czech: Alenka (diminutive from Alena)
Dutch: Alice
Finnish: Liisa
French: Alice
German: Alice
Italian: Alice
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Latvian: Alise
Polish: Alicja
Portuguese: Alice
Russian: �ли�а
Spanish: Alicia
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trans-top|message sender in cryptography
German: Alice
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Quotations
1871 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."
Related terms
given names: Adelaide, Alicia, Alison, Allison, Alyssa, Heidi
See also
Bob
w:Alice and Bob|Wikipedia article on Alice and Bob
Category:Fictional characters
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Danish
Proper noun
infl|da|proper noun
- given name|female||da: borrowed from English.
French
Proper noun
infl|fr|proper noun|g=f
- given name|female||de: of Germanic origin.
Related terms
Adélaïde, Adèle, Adeline, Alicia, Alix
German
Proper noun
infl|de|proper noun
- given name|female||de: borrowed from English; cognate to modern German Adelheid.
Norwegian
Proper noun
infl|no|proper noun
- given name|female||no: borrowed from English.
Swedish
Proper noun
infl|sv|proper noun
- given name|female||sv: borrowed from English.
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