Alexandra

See also: alexandra

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) +‎ ἀνδρ- (andr-, stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”)). Feminine form of Alexander.

The community in Prince Edward Island is named after Queen Alexandra (1844–1925).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.lɪɡˈzæn.dɹə/, /ˌæ.lɪɡˈzɑn.dɹə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.lɪɡˈzɑːn.dɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (æ-tensing, rhotic) IPA^(key): [ˌæ.lɪɡˈzeən.dɹə]
• (æ-tensing, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): [ˌæ.lɪɡˈzeən.dɹə]
• Hyphenation: Al‧ex‧an‧dra
• Rhymes: -ɑ(ː)ndɹə, -ændɹə

Proper noun

Alexandra (countable and uncountable, plural Alexandras)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 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, 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.'

2. (astronomy) 54 Alexandra, a main belt asteroid; named for German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
3. A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
4. A town in Central Otago, New Zealand.

Derived terms

• Alexandra limp

 

Related terms

• Alex
• Alexa
• Lexa
• Lexi
• Lexie
• Sandra
• Sandy
• Sasha

 

Translations

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞歷山德拉／亚历山德拉 (Yàlìshāndélā)

• Czech: Alexandra (cs)
• Danish: Alexandra
• Dutch: Alexandra (nl) f
• Estonian: Aleksandra
• Faroese: Aleksandra f
• Finnish: Aleksandra (fi)
• French: Alexandra (fr)
• German: Alexandra (de)
• Greek: Αλεξάνδρα (el) f (Alexándra)
• Icelandic: Alexandra (is) f
• Italian: Alessandra (it)
• Japanese: アレクサンドラ (Arekusandora)
• Latin: Alexandra f
• Latvian: Aleksandra f
• Macedonian: Алекса́ндра (mk) f (Aleksándra)
• Malay: Iskandariah (ms)
• Manx: Alistreeney f
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐀀𐀩𐀏𐀭𐀅𐀨 f (a-re-ka-sa-da-ra)
• Norwegian: Alexandra (no)
• Polish: Aleksandra (pl) f
• Portuguese: Alexandra (pt) f
• Romanian: Alexandra f
• Russian: Алекса́ндра (ru) f (Aleksándra)
• Spanish: Alejandra (es)
• Swedish: Alexandra (sv)

Asteroid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哲女星 (Zhénǚxīng)

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexandr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalɛksandra]

Proper noun

Alexandra f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Declension

Declension of Alexandra (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	Alexandra	Alexandry
genitive	Alexandry	Alexander
dative	Alexandře	Alexandrám
accusative	Alexandru	Alexandry
vocative	Alexandro	Alexandry
locative	Alexandře	Alexandrách
instrumental	Alexandrou	Alexandrami

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexander.

Proper noun

Alexandra

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Sandra, Sascha

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexander.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Alexandra f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Sandra

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexandre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁa/

• Audio (Paris)

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Proper noun

Alexandra f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Sandra, Sandrine

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Feminine form of Alexander.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Alexandra

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Alexander, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Sandra

Icelandic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexander.

Proper noun

Alexandra f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alexandra

Declension

declension of Alexandra

f-w1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Alexandra
accusative	Alexöndru
dative	Alexöndru
genitive	Alexöndru

Norwegian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexander.

Proper noun

Alexandra

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Sandra

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.leˈʃɐ̃.dɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.leˈʃɐ̃.dɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.leˈʃɐ̃.dɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lɨˈʃɐ̃.dɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɾɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧le‧xan‧dra

Proper noun

Alexandra f (plural Alexandras)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Alexandre (masculine form)
• Xana (pet form)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• Александра (Alexandra) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lekˈsan.dra/

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• Rhymes: -andra
• Hyphenation: A‧le‧xan‧dra

Proper noun

Alexandra f (genitive/dative Alexandrei, male equivalent Alexandru)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexander.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaleksandra]

Proper noun

Alexandra f (genitive singular Alexandry, nominative plural Alexandry, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Declension

Declension of Alexandra

	singular	plural
nominative	Alexandra	Alexandry
genitive	Alexandry	Alexandier
dative	Alexandre	Alexandrám
accusative	Alexandru	Alexandry
locative	Alexandre	Alexandrách
instrumental	Alexandrou	Alexandrami

Derived terms

• Xandra
• Sandra
• Saša
• Šura
• Alexa
• Saška
• Šurka

Further reading

• “Alexandra”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Feminine form of Alexander.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Alexandra c (genitive Alexandras)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Related terms

• Sandra