ALEXANDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alexander mean? 

• ALEXANDER (noun)
  The noun ALEXANDER has 2 senses:

1. European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb

2. king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)

  Familiarity information: ALEXANDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALEXANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alexander; Alexanders; black lovage; horse parsley; Smyrnium olusatrum

Hypernyms ("Alexander" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("Alexander" is a member of...):

genus Smyrnium; Smyrnium (Alexanders)

Sense 2

Meaning:

King of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alexander; Alexander the Great

Instance hypernyms:

conqueror; vanquisher (someone who is victorious by force of arms)

Derivation:

Alexandrian (of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire)

 Context examples 

Alexander Watson, a biologist at conservation group, WWF Australia, who has worked with Aboriginal rangers in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, says it is an extraordinary discovery.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

Mutations in the gene are associated with Alexander disease, which is characterized by both progressive leukoencephalopathy and loss of neuronal myelination with age.

(GFAP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include metachromatic leukodystrophy, Krabbe disease, Canavan disease, and Alexander disease.

(Leukodystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

If you won't, my name is Alexander Smollett, I've flown my sovereign's colours, and I'll see you all to Davy Jones.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“My name,” answered our visitor, “is probably familiar to your ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists know that distinct types of neurons detect different types of sensations, such as touch, heat, cold, pain, pressure, and vibration, noted Alexander Chesler, Ph.D., lead author of the study.

(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)

Because species interactions are both ubiquitous and ephemeral, according to lead researcher Alexander Badyaev, the theory has been notoriously difficult to test.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

According to Brazilian palaeontologist Alexander Kellner, the discovery was made during in 2015 and 2016 expeditions in the Hami region, northwestern China.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

Alexander was called up into the room: it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of my own.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Alison Farrish and David Alexander at Rice led the group’s first study to characterize the space weather environment of stars other than our own to see how it would affect the magnetic activity around an exoplanet.

(Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star, National Science Foundation )