Associations to the word «Alexandria»

Wiktionary

ALEXANDRIA, proper noun. A city and port in Egypt.
ALEXANDRIA, proper noun. Any of a number of cities bearing the same name, including Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
ALEXANDRIA, proper noun. A female given name.

Dictionary definition

ALEXANDRIA, noun. A town in Louisiana on the Red River.
ALEXANDRIA, noun. The chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne