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alexis
/əˈlɛksɪs/
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What does alexis mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, transferred from the male name and used since the 1940s.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈlɛksɪs/
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The founder of the convent, Hebronius, lives again in the person of Father Alexis, who is no other than Leroux.
ALEXIS I trust my Aline will not yield to fear while the strong right arm of her Alexis is here to protect her.
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So Alexis crept to his hole and slept.
MENALCAS First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give, Which taught me "Corydon with love was fired For fair Alexis," ay, and this beside, "Who owns the flock?- Meliboeus?"
Take, for example, the career of the late Alexis de Tocqueville, a man doubly well-born, for his father was a distinguished peer of France, and his mother a grand-daughter of Malesherbes.