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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALEXANDRINE

From French alexandrin, from Alexandre, title of 15th-century poem written in this metre.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ALEXANDRINE

Alexandrine  [ˌælɪɡˈzændraɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALEXANDRINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Alexandrine can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ALEXANDRINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Alexandrine

An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods. Drama in English often used alexandrines before Marlowe and Shakespeare, by whom it was supplanted by iambic pentameter. In non-Anglo-Saxon or French contexts, the term dodecasyllable is often used.

Definition of Alexandrine in the English dictionary

The definition of Alexandrine in the dictionary is a line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot. Other definition of Alexandrine is of, characterized by, or written in Alexandrines.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALEXANDRINE


brine
braɪn
cedrine
ˈsiːdraɪn
crine
kraɪn
cyprine
ˈsɪpraɪn
endocrine
ˈɛndəʊˌkraɪn
enshrine
ɪnˈʃraɪn
estuarine
ˈɛstjʊəˌraɪn
exocrine
ˈɛksəʊˌkraɪn
intrauterine
ˌɪntrəˈjuːtəraɪn
lacustrine
ləˈkʌstraɪn
murine
ˈmjʊəraɪn
neuroendocrine
ˌnjʊərəʊˈɛndəʊˌkraɪn
Rhine
raɪn
riverine
ˈrɪvəˌraɪn
scolopendrine
ˌskɒləˈpendraɪn
shrine
ʃraɪn
Strine
straɪn
taurine
ˈtɔːraɪn
trine
traɪn
uterine
ˈjuːtəˌraɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALEXANDRINE

Alexander
Alexander Archipelago
Alexander I
Alexander I Island
Alexander II
Alexander III
Alexander Nevski
Alexander technique
Alexander the Great
Alexander VI
alexanders
Alexandra
Alexandretta
Alexandria
Alexandrian
Alexandrian senna

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALEXANDRINE

aquamarine
Benzedrine
Catherine
chlorine
Dexedrine
doctrine
ephedrine
figurine
Katherine
marine
methedrine
Paludrine
poitrine
pseudoephedrine
salamandrine
submarine
tangerine
urine
vitrine
wolverine

Synonyms and antonyms of Alexandrine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Alexandrine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALEXANDRINE

Find out the translation of Alexandrine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Alexandrine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Alexandrine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

亚历山大
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Alexandrine
570 millions of speakers

English

Alexandrine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Alexandrine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكساندرين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Александрина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Alexandrine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ষড়্মাত্রিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

alexandrin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Alexandrine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Alexandriner
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アレキサンダー格の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

알렉산더
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alexandrine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thơ lục bát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலெக்ஸாண்டிரின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अॅलेक्झांड्रीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mısraları on ikişer heceli şiir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alessandrino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Alexandrine
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Александріна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Alexandrine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Αλεξανδρινός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Alexander
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Alexandrine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Alexandrine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Alexandrine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALEXANDRINE»

The term «Alexandrine» is regularly used and occupies the 80.886 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALEXANDRINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Alexandrine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Alexandrine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Alexandrine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALEXANDRINE»

Discover the use of Alexandrine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Alexandrine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The House on Alexandrine
The lives of the residents of a Detroit rooming house in 1973 are seen through the eyes of Daniel Corbin, an aspiring writer and bartender
Stephen Dobyns, 1990
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Cambodia: A Shattered Society
Her book will be acclaimed for its wealth of new information and for bearing eloquent witness to Cambodia's tragic story. The history of modern Cambodia has been one of invasion, occupation, political chaos, and genocidal terror.
Marie Alexandrine Martin, 1994
3
Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Icons
M. ANN HALL Alexandrine Gibb has probably had as much to do with the tremendous development of girls' sport in Canada as any other individual in the country. She is a dark young lady with beautiful brown eyes, who went to Havergal and ...
J. A. Mangan, Fan Hong, 2001
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French Women Writers
BIOGRAPHY Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin was born in 1682 in Grenoble, the last of the five children of Antoine Guerin de Tencin and Louise de Buffevent. The Guerin de Tencin were a family of lawyers and administrators who had ...
Eva Martin Sartori, Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman, 1994
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A Study of History
tween contemporaries was one day to be illustrated in Modern Western history, as it had already been revealed in post-Alexandrine Hellenic history, was a question still unanswered in A.d. 1952; and this enigmatic mark of interrogation served ...
Arnold Joseph Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell, 1987
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The Alexandrine Gospel (Sirach, Wisdom, Philo, the Epistle ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Nairne Alexander, 2009
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The Other John Adams, 1705-1740
He uses the Alexandrine with some frequency, as in his rendition of the second chapter of Lamentations (54.16), in his version of the fourth ode of Horace's first book (63.9), and in "On the Death of . . . Cotton Mather" (85.10). He employs it most ...
Benjamin Franklin, 2003
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Essai Sur Les Origines de la Philosophie Judéo-Alexandrine
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Bois Henri, 2009
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Family Records of Theodore Parsons Hall and Alexandrine ...
Including Brief Accounts Of The St. Auburn, Scott-Gordon, Irvine-Orr, And Navarre-Macomb Families.
Theodore Parsons Hall, 2010
10
An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate, or ...
antiquity of the Alexandrine text, by the united testimony of Clement and Origen 165 ; and to strengthen it by an alliance with the Western text, in order to form a counterpoise to the immense superiority in numbers on the part of the Byzantine  ...
Frederick Nolan, 1815

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALEXANDRINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Alexandrine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Theatre review: Andromaque, Glasgow
... and shortening Racine's famous flowing Alexandrine lines to eight-syllable phrases full of highly stylised Irish inversions – “Hard, he punched ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
2
Help Is Offered to Detroit Car Theft Victim Who Sent Poignant Letter
They parked their car on Cass just north of Alexandrine. . . . But when their day in Detroit was over, the car was gone. . . . "I know what's it like to ... «Deadline Detroit, Jul 15»
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Theatre review: Andromaque at Oran Mor, Glasgow
It is an inspired way of communicating what has been described as Racine's "hard, electric rage" - and there's not a long, slow alexandrine in ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
4
Detroit eyesore transformed into green living apartments
The El Moore, at Second and Alexandrine, is a sister project to the nearby Green Garage, a showcase for sustainable design that opened in ... «Detroit Free Press, Jun 15»
5
Oliver Orville Davis, 90, Nashville
Born July 15, 1924, to Frederick and Alexandrine Duquette Davis in Manistique, Michigan, he was the youngest of 10 children. As a young boy, Oliver gave his ... «Bcdemocrat, Jun 15»
6
Annie Freud interview: 'Why I've finally embraced the family name'
It's something that happens a bit organically for me, though there's nothing wrong with sitting down to write Alexandrine couplets – I might do ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
7
Taking a break: The people who help us on our journey
There's Todd and Susan and Hajira and Alexandrine. John and Mr Foster. Jessie. Mr Kaltoffen. And as I already mentioned, Jennifer, the mom ... «Luxemburger Wort - English Edition, Jun 15»
8
Swiss boutique adds UBS bond specialist to multi asset star's fund
Bellevue Asset Management has hired emerging markets bond specialist Alexandrine Jaceklin from UBS to work alongside Lucio Soso on its ... «http://citywire.lu, Jun 15»
9
Peoples Records is a labor of love
Peoples Records is 12 years old and in its third storefront, on the corner of Woodward and Alexandrine, adjacent to the Majestic Theatre. «Detroit Metro Times, Jun 15»
10
Family versus finances: the calculus for MPs when deciding whether …
Others, like the NDP's Alexandrine Latendresse, who was among the young MPs from Quebec who were swept onto Parliament Hill in 2011, ... «The Daily Courier, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Alexandrine [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/alexandrine>. Apr 2024 ».
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