Alexis

[ uh-lek-sis ]

noun

1. a first name: from a Greek word meaning “helper.”

Example Sentences

She’s now the subject of a lively documentary from Alexis Manya Spraic, “The World According to Allee Willis,” and in a central way, it qualifies as the Detroit-born artist’s final work as well.

From Los Angeles Times

That is what Alexis de Tocqueville called “the habits of the heart” of democracy.

From Slate

Liverpool have taken early control of the Premier League title race, but Alexis Mac Allister says he didn't think they would be contenders at the start of the season.

From BBC

Tate and her dad, Tony, were in the right place to see Alexis Sanchez score a 98th-minute penalty winner for Arsenal against Burnley in 2017.

From BBC

The revolution of 1776 emerged in part from a rejection of the feudal class divisions that existed in Europe, and European thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville, seeing a place where such divisions had vanished, wrote that people in America were "seen to be more equal in fortune and intelligence — more equally strong, in other words — than they were in any other country, or were at any other time in recorded history."

From Salon