alexandrian

Speech parts

1. alexandrian - Noun

2. alexandrian - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

alexandrine hellenistic greek egyptian oriental ptolemaic conqueror international Alexandria diverse hybrid inclusive eclectic cosmopolitan multicultural
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Hypernyms

resident occupant occupier

Phrases with the word

alexandrian rite

Anagrams

Alexandrina

Examples

You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with. Stacy Schiff

The Alexandrian chemists were very near to a recognition of gases. J. R. Partington

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

About 71 CE, Josephus married an Alexandrian Jewish woman as his third wife. Source: Internet

According to him Origen brought to Caesarea the Alexandrian text-type which was used in this codex, and used by Jerome. Source: Internet

Astrology main The mathematician Claudius Ptolemy 'the Alexandrian' as imagined by a 16th-century artist Ptolemy has been referred to as “a pro-astrological authority of the highest magnitude”. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Alexandria Opiana Alexandria senna alexandria's country Alexandrian laurel Alexandrian Orthodox Church alexandrian rite