ALFRED THE GREAT

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• ALFRED THE GREAT (noun)
  The noun ALFRED THE GREAT has 1 sense:

1. king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)

  Familiarity information: ALFRED THE GREAT used as a noun is very rare.

• ALFRED THE GREAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

King of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alfred; Alfred the Great

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

 Context examples 

If a speech be well drawn up, I read it with pleasure, by whomsoever it may be made—and probably with much greater, if the production of Mr. Hume or Mr. Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)