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"ALEXIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a helper", "a defender", "defend", "help". |
Date "ALEXIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Alexis |
Literature | Alexis (St.) Patron saint of hermits and beggars. The story goes that he lived on his father's estate as a hermit till death, but was never recognised. He is represented, in Christian art, with a pilgrim's habit and staff. Sometimes he is drawn as if extended on a mat, with a letter in his hand, dying. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Plutarch says that he lived to the age of 106, and that he died on the stage while being crowned. According to Suidas, he wrote 245 comedies, of which some 130 titles are preserved. Only fragments of any of the plays have survived - about 340 in all, totalling about 1000 lines. They attest the wit and refinement of the author (Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta).
The Suidas also calls him Menander's uncle, but an anonymous tractate on Comedy more plausibly states that Menander was his pupil. Alexis was known in Roman times; Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis' plays were used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alexis."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ALEXIS | English | Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ALEXIS |
| English words defined with "ALEXIS": modifiable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ALEXIS": Alex. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alexis Zorbas (1964) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Docteur Alexis Carrel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Alexis Claude Clairaut, full-length portrait, seated at table, left profile, writing on balcony. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Expédition polaire Andrée, 1897 / cliché Alexis Machuron. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Alexis de Tocqueville / nach der Lithographie von Chasseriau. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Alexis de Tocqueville | A new science of politics is needed for a new world. |
| The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. | |
| No protacted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. | |
| In politics . . . shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. | |
| In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end. | |
| Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. | |
| A despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other. | |
| Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather by equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. | |
| The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burundi | On October 20, gendarmes arrested and beat Alexis Sinduhije, a reporter with the independent RPA, following a meeting with foreign military officers. (references) |
Economic History | Haiti | Eventually, in December 1998, Jacques Alexis was confirmed as Prime Minister. (references) |
Barbados | FORDE, Mr. John Fitzgerald Alexis, LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M. (Corporate and Commercial Law). (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Civilian Jhon Alexis Olarte Briceno and army sergeant Guillermo Lozano Guerrero also remained on trial at year's end. (references) |
Congo | In June 2000, in Walikale, RPA Captain Alexis Rugira and other RPA soldiers stole Baligizi Mufungizi's bicycle, robbed him, and then killed him. (references) | |
Rwanda | RPA Captain Alexis Rugira, S/Major Rutabana, and two privates who allegedly killed Baligizi Mufungizi in 2000 remained in pretrial detention awaiting prosecution at year's end. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ALEXIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.67% of the time. "ALEXIS" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 78.67% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 1.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ALEXIS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Alexis | First name Female | 30,000 | 457 |
| Alexis | First name Male | 11,000 | 641 |
| Alexis | Last name | 1,000 | 8,677 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ALEXIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a helper", "a defender", "defend", "help". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ALEXIS." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Alexis | Female, Male | Ancient Greek | Alexius |
| Alexius | Male | Ancient Greek (Latinized) | N/A |
| Alexej | Male | Czech | Alexius |
| Alexa | Female | English | Alexius |
| Alexia | Female | English | Alexius |
| Alexina | Female | English | Alexius |
| Alexis | Female, Male | English | Alexius |
| Alexus | Female | English | Alexis |
| Alexia | Female | German | Alexius |
| Alexis | Female, Male | German | Alexius |
| Elek | Male | Hungarian | Alexius |
| Alessia | Female | Italian | Alexius |
| Alessio | Male | Italian | Alexius |
| Aleksei | Male | Russian | Alexius |
| Alejo | Male | Spanish | Alexius |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Alexis, IL (village, FIPS 672) 2. Alexis, NC |
Expressions using "ALEXIS": alexis Carrel ♦ alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
alexis bledel | 769 | alexis system vogel | 48 |
alexis amore | 724 | alexis de tocqueville | 48 |
alexis vogel | 507 | alexis spencer | 43 |
alexis | 497 | alexis glick | 41 |
alexis love | 187 | alexis make up vogel | 40 |
alexis thorpe | 184 | alexis field | 38 |
alexis stewart | 157 | alexis devell | 38 |
alexis denisof | 130 | alexis illinois | 38 |
alexis taylor | 126 | alexis cruz | 37 |
alexis fire | 99 | alexis sonny | 36 |
alexis bledel nude | 91 | alexis hotel seattle | 35 |
kim alexis | 90 | alexis bledel picture | 34 |
alexis park resort | 76 | alexis park las vegas | 31 |
alexis arquette | 66 | alexis contopulos | 30 |
alexis park | 63 | alexis park hotel | 29 |
albert aldous alexander alexis alfred algernon | 62 | alexis bledel fake | 28 |
alexis laree | 58 | alexis amore pic | 28 |
alexis hotel | 58 | alexis hornbuckle | 25 |
alexis malone | 52 | alexis cosmetic vogel | 25 |
alexis winston | 51 | alexis lopez | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ALEXIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | алексис. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ALEXIS": catalexis, hypercatalexis. (additional references) | |
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"ALEXIS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aleix, Aleksey, Aleksi, Aleksii, Alesius, Aleuin, Alexie, alexin, Alexsey, Allectus, Alxi, Ulexite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-s-x" | |
-1 letter: aisle, axels, axile, axils, axles, lexis, silex. | |
-2 letters: ails, ales, axel, axes, axil, axis, axle, ilea, ilex, isle, lase, leas, leis, lies, sail, sale, seal, sial. | |
-3 letters: ail, ais, ale, als, axe, els, las, lax, lea, lei, lex, lie, lis, sae, sal, sax, sea, sei, sel, sex, six, xis. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, al, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-s-x" | |
+1 letter: alexias, alexins. | |
+2 letters: alexines, bisexual, climaxes, dyslexia, exclaims, explains, flaxiest, galaxies, laxities, oxalises, relaxins, saxatile, siloxane, smilaxes. | |
+3 letters: alkoxides, bisexuals, catalexis, coxalgies, dyslexias, excisable, laxatives, mailboxes, sexuality, sexualize, siloxanes, telotaxis, unisexual. | |
+4 letters: ambisexual, anthelixes, antisexual, apoplexies, asexuality, axialities, axillaries, axiologies, bisexually, climaxless, epicalyxes, excisional, exclaimers, exfoliates, expansible, explainers, explicates, hexaploids, indexicals, lixiviates, luxuriates, phylaxises, plaintexts, sexualized, sexualizes. | |
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