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Alfred

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Noun

1. alfred, alfred the great

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Alfred

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noun
an old-fashioned male forename

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Alfred

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noun
a masculine name: dim. Al, Alf, Alfie, Fred; fem. Alfreda

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Alfred

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King of the West Saxons (871-899), scholar, and lawmaker who repelled the Danes and helped consolidate England into a unified kingdom.

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