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Alexandra ( Greek: ) is a romanization of the Greek name (Alexandros) and is the feminine form of the given name Alexander. Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (alexein) "to defend" and (anēr) "man" ( GEN andros). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protector of man". The name was one of the titles or epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek , a-re-ka-sa-da-ra, written in the Linear B syllabic script.
Alexandra was the stage name of German singer Doris Nefedov, maiden name Treitz (May 19, 1942 – July 31, 1969).
Alexandra (, translit. Aleksandra) is a 2007 Russian film about the Second Chechen War, written and directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
The Alexandra was an all-wooden bodied electric brougham made by the Phoenix Carriage Co of Birmingham from 1905 to 1906. It included a safety device found in hansom cabs to stop passengers from falling out of the vehicle in the event of a sudden halt. A petrol-engine vehicle , also listed for sale, but it is unknown how much, if any, success this model found.
Alexandria is a former Alberta provincial electoral district.
Alexandra is the feminine form of the given name Alexander. It is often shortened to Alex, Ali, Sandy or Sandra in English.
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"Alexandra" is a poem by South African poet and writer Mongane Wally Serote.
Serote's poems about places, particularly his Alexandra poems, grapple with the problems of squalor, violence, death, destitution, exploitation and the Black People's quest for identity and a sense of community. In the poem Alexandra, the speaker's inner-child addresses his 'mother'; "Alexandra, my beginning was knotted to you, just like you knot my destiny". Alexandra (the place) is forever connected to the speaker, just like a mother would be forever connected to her child. The personification of Alexandra (the place) as mother-figure allows the speaker to emphasize the bond he has with the place; wherever he goes he carries the 'throb' of Alexandra deep within him – it has made him who he is. He was nourished on the "dirty waters of (her) dongas" and when he is thirsty he cries out for this 'mother', this mother who frightens him and whom he suspects to be cruel. He pleads for answers from this 'mother'; "Do you love me Alexandra?" and "What have you done to me?" Despite not receiving answers he cannot leave although others have distanced themselves from the memories and walked over him to go to "far places". He is a product of his roots, he has been shaped by this 'mother' Alexandra, and he acknowledges that in the end he will always find his way back to her to lie amid the rubble, "simple and black". The speaker of the poem creates an image to the reader, what his life was like during the apartheid times in South Africa.
Category:Postcolonial literature Category:South African poetry
Usage examples of "alexandra".
By now Alexandra was unwinding as an anchorwoman and winding back up as a born-and-raised farm girl who was excited to be nearing home.
Jessica had spent so much time there, in fact, that when Alexandra renovated the house, the anchorwoman had added a one-bedroom suite on the far side expressly for Jessica.
True, no sooner had the idea taken wing, than they spoke of nothing but funeral establishments, efficient burials, the transportation of dead bodies, and the difficulties to be expected in connection with the shipment of coffins and urns, but Alexandra thought all that, the name of their shared idea included, worth a burst of before or after laughter, her bellbird laughter.
Alexandra Tolgren, of the Shahnapur Technological Institute, made the first serious application of the gas-delayed blowback principle which was to be the foundation of Draka small-arms design for two generations.
In Bochum and Gdansk, Alexander and Alexandra saw what the TV brought into their living rooms.
I knew that my feelings were neither spontaneous nor natural because I could visualize the cobra without looking at it and feel nothing, I could remember the bushmaster that had killed Alexandra and the coral snake that had almost killed me and feel nothing, yet as soon as my gaze fell on the cobra in its cage the repulsion was there, and with it the fear that snakes had never before inspired in me.
In this sense she was very different from Alexandra Muraviev, the wife of the Decembrist Nikita Muraviev, who came from a rather less aristocratic background than Maria Volkonsky.
As they left the Cafe Diavolo, Cranston remarked that he would see her later, so with Clyde as escort, Margo started toward the Hotel Alexandra, which bulked three blocks away.
Alexandra kept threatening to dig up and replace with hibiscus to the square marble footstones leading to the front of the house.
I swear, Alexandra, one day all this hotheadedness is going to come back to haunt you.
General Lord Alexandras was, in fact, correct: if Arethousa and Aosta were to survive, they must protect each other against attacks from all sides.
Though he sang inj Tibetan, Alexandra found herself able to follow every word about the gardens and the palaces that awaited.
The news wires were about to explode with the information that the face of the dazzlingly beautiful actress and film star, Isabella Lascar, had been obliterated, and that what was left of her body lay in the tiny Vineyard morgue, with a toe tag mislabeled in the name of Alexandra Cooper.
Alexandra was puzzled by a dozen polished black granite stones, each engraved with the names and dates of Polonized Tatars, along with a crescent moon and a star.
Above the main street, about five hundred metres from the end of Rostock Bridge, a flyover passed across, carrying a further line of traffic, this time that which was coming south from Alexandra, and bearing it towards the access road to the main north-south artery.