Alexa
Alexa proper noun: a female given name from Ancient Greek. Also the female equivalent of Alex.
Proper noun
Alexa (plural Alexas)
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
- A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Amazon.com, Inc.
- Create an upbeat mix for your life’s soundtrack. Easier yet, tell Alexa to play songs from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s or whatever musical genre that is your motivational call-to-arms.2023 November 14, Beth Romero, “Be a Weeble”, in Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Art of...
Also used as
Alexa is also the female equivalent of Alex.
Alexa is also the diminutive of Alexandra.
Forms of Alexa
| plural | Alexas |
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Origin of Alexa
* From Alex + -a. A feminine form of Alex. * A female given name, clipping of Alexandra.
Questions about Alexa
- What does Alexa mean?
- Alexa means a female given name from Ancient Greek.
- What part of speech is Alexa?
- Alexa is a proper noun.
Words near Alexa in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Alexa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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