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{{also|alice|ALICE}}
==English==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|Alice}}, from {{der|en|fro|Alys}}, {{m|fro|Alice}}, from {{der|en|goh|Adalheidis}}, proposed to derive from {{der|en|gem-pro|-}} {{af|gem-pro|*aþalaz|t1=[[noble]]|*haiduz|t2=[[character]]|nocat=1}}. {{doublet|en|Adelaide}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈæl.ɪs/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-Alice.ogg|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|EN-AU ck1 Alice.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Alice.wav}}
* {{rhymes|en|ælɪs|s=2}}

===Proper noun===
{{en-proper noun}}

# {{given name|en|female|from=Germanic languages}} popular in England since the Middle Ages.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1871|author=w:Lewis Carroll|title=[[s:Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There/Chapter VI|Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 6]]
|passage="My ''name'' is '''Alice''', but—"<br>"It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"<br>"''Must'' a name mean something?" '''Alice''' asked doubtfully.<br>"Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "''my'' name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1968|author=w:Kurt Vonnegut|title=Welcome to the Monkey House|page=xiv|publisher=Delacorte Press
|passage=She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened ''''Alice'''', but she used to deny that she was really an '''Alice'''. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova|title=Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why|magazine=w:CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/germany-government-collapse-explainer-intl/index.html|date=2024-11-07|passage=Party leader '''Alice''' Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.}}
# {{lb|en|cryptography|physics}} The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as [[Bob]].
#: {{syn|en|Party A}}
#: {{cot|en|Bob|Eve|Mallory|Peggy|Victor}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1978|author=V.S. Bagad; I.A. Dhotre|title=Computer Networks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynZHqsjpnVcC&lpg=RA1-PA31&dq=%22Alice%22&pg=RA6-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22Alice%22&f=false|publisher=Technical Publications|isbn=9788184315639
|passage='''Alice''' sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, <math>N</math> and sends it to '''Alice'''. '''Alice''' encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, <math>K_{A-B}</math>, and sends the encrypted nonce, <math>K_{A-B}(N)</math> back to Bob.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=N. David Mermin|title=It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400830848|page={{gbooks|3K1zr8XrtZoC|19}}
|passage='''Alice''' opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees '''Alice'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s, and '''Alice''' notes the time <math>T</math> that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.}}
# {{lb|en|AU|slang|often with "the"}} The city of [[Alice Springs]], Australia.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Sylvia Lawson|chapter=Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance|title=How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=RioNDmxhskUC&pg=PA17&dq=%22alice%22+australia+-%22alice+-springs%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=IaGzTs-QHqyHmQX3zpXZAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwADhk#v=onepage&q=%22alice%22%20australia%20-%22alice%20-springs%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false|page=17
|passage=At that point in my second visit to '''the Alice''', I'd been there only a day.{{...}} they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the '''Alice''' and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills; quoting Olive Veverbrants|title=Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice|page=27
|passage=In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in '''Alice'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Larry Habegger|title=Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories|page=7
|passage="Don't waste yer time in '''The Alice''', get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."}}
# {{place|en|city|s/North Dakota}}.
# {{place|en|city/county seat|co/Jim Wells County|s/Texas}}.

====Derived terms====
{{col3|en
|Alice band
|Alice blue
|Alice in Wonderland|Alice Springs
|Alice's fern
}}

====Related terms====
{{col3|en|title=given names
|Adelaide
|Alicia
|Alison
|Allison
|Alyssa
|Heidi
}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|female given name}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|أَلِيس|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|Alícia|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|愛麗絲|tr=Àilìsī}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|Alice|f}}<!--; [[Alenka]] (diminutive from [[Alena]])-->
* Danish: {{t|da|Alice}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|Alice|f}}, {{t+|nl|Adelheid|f}} {{q|historical}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|Aliisa}}, {{t+|fi|Alisa}}; {{t+|fi|Liisa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|Alice|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|Alicia|f}}, {{t+|gl|Adela|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Alice|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|Αλίκη|f|sc=Grek}}
* Greenlandic: {{t|kl|Aaliit}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|Lísa|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|Alice|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|アリス|tr=Arisu|sc=Jpan}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|^앨리스}}
* Latin: {{t|la|Alicia|f}}, {{t|la|Adelaidis|f}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|Alise|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|Alisa|f}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|Alice}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|Alicja|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|Alice|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|Али́са|f}}, {{t+|ru|Э́лис|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|Алиса|f|sc=Cyrl}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|Alisa|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|Alicia|f}}
* Swahili: {{t|sw|Elisi}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|Alice}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|Alis}}
* Volapük: {{t|vo|Lälid}}
* Welsh: {{t|cy|Alys|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|message sender in cryptography}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|Alice}}
* German: {{t+|de|Alice|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|Alice|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===See also===
* {{l|en|Bob}}

===Further reading===
* {{pedia|Alice (given name)}}
* {{pedia|Alice and Bob}}
* {{pedia|Alice Springs}}
* {{pedia|Alice, North Dakota}}
* {{pedia|Alice, Texas}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aceil|Alcie|Celia|Licea|ileac}}

{{C|en|Fictional characters}}

==Cebuano==

===Etymology===
From {{der|ceb|en|Alice}}, from {{der|ceb|fro|Alis}}, {{m|fro|Alice}}, from {{der|ceb|goh|Adalheidis}}, from {{m|goh|adal||noble}} + {{m|goh|heit||kind, sort}}.

===Proper noun===
{{head|ceb|proper noun}}

# {{given name|ceb|female|from=English}}
# the titular character of ''{{w|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland}}''

{{C|ceb|Fictional characters}}

==Czech==
{{wp|lang=cs}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{cs-IPA}}

===Proper noun===
{{cs-proper noun|f}}

# {{given name|cs|female|eq=Alice}}

====Declension====
{{cs-ndecl|f}}

==Danish==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|da|en|Alice}}.

===Proper noun===
{{da-proper noun}}

# {{given name|da|female}}

==French==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|fr|fro|Alis}}, {{m|fro|Alice}}, from {{der|fr|goh|Adalheidis}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-Alice.ogg}}

===Proper noun===
{{fr-proper noun|f}}

# {{given name|fr|female|eq=Alice}}

====Related terms====
{{col5|fr
|Adélaïde
|Adèle
|Adeline
|Alicia
|Alix
}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|fr|celai}}
* {{l|fr|Célia}}

==German==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|de|en|Alice}}. {{doublet|de|Adelheid}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/aˈliː.sə/|[ʔaˈliː.sə]|a=Standard Northern}}
* {{audio|de|De-Alice.ogg}}
* {{IPA|de|/aˈliːs/|a=Austrian German}}
* {{audio|de|De-Alice3.ogg}}
* {{IPA|de|/ˈɛlɪs/}}
* {{audio|de|De-Alice2.ogg}}
* {{IPA|de|/aˈlɪtʃə/}}
* {{audio|de|De-Alice4.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|de|A|li|ce}}

===Proper noun===
{{head|de|proper noun}}

# {{given name|de|female}}

==Italian==

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|Alìce}}

===Proper noun===
{{it-proper noun|f}}

# {{given name|it|female|eq=Alice}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|it|a=aceil|Cilea|acile|calie|celai|celia|elica|laice}}

==Norwegian==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|no|en|Alice}}.

===Proper noun===
{{head|no|proper noun}}

# {{given name|no|female}}

==Portuguese==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|pt|en|Alice}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pt-IPA}}
* {{hyph|pt|A|li|ce}}

===Proper noun===
{{pt-proper noun|f|Alices}}

# {{given name|pt|female|eq=Alice}}
# {{lb|pt|cryptography}} {{l|en|Alice}} (an entity sending a message)

==Swedish==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|sv|en|Alice}}. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1841.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|sv|LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Alice.wav}}

===Proper noun===
{{sv-proper noun|c}}

# {{given name|sv|female}}

===References===
* Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, {{ISBN|91-21-10937-0}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100328044612/http://www.scb.se/Pages/NameSearch____259432.aspx] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, ''Förnamnsboken'', Norstedts 1995, {{ISBN|9119551622}}: 32 481 females with the given name Alice living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

==Tagalog==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|tl|en|Alice}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{tl-pr|Alis|syll=A.lice}}

===Proper noun===
{{tl-proper noun|b=Alis}}

# {{given name|tl|female|from=English}}