Allison
pronunciation
How to pronounce Allison in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce Allison in American English:
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Word Origin
- Allison
- fem. proper name, a diminutive of Alice (q.v.), via Old French Alison. Popular in U.S. as a girl's name from 1990s, but all but unknown there before 1946; it was popular in England and Scotland 13c.-17c. As a surname, it could represent "Alice's son."
Example
- 1. Allison 's mentors discouraged him from pursuing research on t-cells .
- 2. Allison schrager is an economist based in new york .
- 3. John has seen his sister allison succeed .
- 4. Npr 's allison keyes says cuomo is calling for a redesign of transportation and utility systems .
- 5. Allison demonstrated how an anesthetized mouse is injected with the antibody to ctla-4 .