Alison
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From Old French Alison, brought to England by the Normans (from Anglo-Norman Alison, from Norman Alison), diminutive of Aliz, equivalent to English Alice, from Old High German Adalhaid (“of noble kind”). Became Middle English Alisoun.
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Alison (countable and uncountable, plural Alisons)
- (countable) A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
- He came up close and kneeling gently down
He said, "My love, my dearest Alison,
So help me God, I never again will hit
You, love; and if I did, you asked for it.
- (countable) A surname.
- A semi-rural suburb in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Diminutives of the female given name
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female given name