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  • proper noun A female given name.

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A modern spelling variant of Alicia, a Latinisation of Alice, from the Germanic Aliz, a short form of the Germanic Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic Adalheidis, from adal (noble) and heid (type), thus of a noble kind.

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