Alice

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 See also 1.5 Anagrams 2 Czech 2.1 Proper noun 3 Danish 3.1 Proper noun 4 French 4.1 Proper noun 4.1.1 Related terms 4.2 Anagrams 5 German 5.1 Proper noun 6 Italian 6.1 Proper noun 7 Norwegian 7.1 Proper noun 8 Swedish 8.1 Proper noun

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[edit] Etymology

French and English contraction of Old High German Adalheidis; from adal "noble" + heid "sort, kind".

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[edit] Proper noun

Singular Alice

Plural -

Alice

1. A female given name popular in England since Middle Ages.
2. (fictional character) The main character in Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
3. (cryptography, physics) 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.

[edit] Quotations

• 1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale:

  That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis, / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.

• 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."

• 1968 Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House, Delacorte Press, page xiv:

  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.

[edit] Related terms

• given names: Adelaide, Alicia, Alison, Allison, Alyssa, Heidi

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[edit] See also

• Bob
• Wikipedia article on Alice and Bob

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aceil
• Celia
• ileac

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[edit] Proper noun

Alice f.

1. A female given name, cognate to Alice.

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[edit] Danish

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Alice

1. A female given name borrowed from English.

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Alice f.

1. A female given name of Germanic origin.

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• Adélaïde, Adèle, Adeline, Alicia, Alix

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aceil
• celai
• Célia

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[edit] German

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Alice

1. A female given name borrowed from English; cognate to modern German Adelheid.

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[edit] Italian

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Alice f.

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Alice.

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[edit] Norwegian

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Alice

1. A female given name borrowed from English.

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Proper noun

Alice

1. A female given name borrowed from English.