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ALEXANDER I

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ALEXANDER I (noun)
  The noun ALEXANDER I has 1 sense:

1. the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825)play

  Familiarity information: ALEXANDER I used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ALEXANDER I (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aleksandr Pavlovich; Alexander I; Czar Alexander I

Instance hypernyms:

czar; tsar; tzar (a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917))

Domain region:

Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)


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