Alice
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Alice¹
- /ˈæl.ɪs/
Rhymes with -ælɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English Alice, from Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, proposed to derive from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”). Doublet of Adelaide.
proper noun Alices
- A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages. "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
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The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#95;#123;A-B#125;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#95;#123;A-B#125;(N) back to Bob.
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- The city of Alice Springs, Australia. At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
- A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A city in North Dakota.
- A city, the county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas.
ALICE²
noun
- Acronym of All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment
- Acronym of Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity After ALICE was introduced on Pandorabots’s platform in the early 2000s, one of its interlocutors was the film director Spike Jonze. He would later cite their conversation as the inspiration for his movie “Her,” which follows a lonely man as he falls in love with his artificial intelligence operatin
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: alicia, judy, natalia, jennifer, dicky, ali, ellis, sarah, yang, altar, god, aspen, lecture, tremble, alisa, alise
Translations
Talk about this word "Alice." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/alice. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Alice. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/alice "Alice." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/alice.Cite this
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