Ali

Speech parts

1. Ali - Noun

2. Ali - Proper noun

Meaning

the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects

United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)

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Examples

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me? Joe Frazier

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute. Joe Frazier

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. Wilt Chamberlain

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. Jorge Luis Borges

I still can't believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I've never forgotten it. Mike Tyson

If Ali is the camel-driver, he knows where to rest his camel. Persian Proverb

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