ALEXANDER II

• ALEXANDER II (noun)
  The noun ALEXANDER II has 1 sense:

1. the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)

  Familiarity information: ALEXANDER II used as a noun is very rare.

• ALEXANDER II (noun)

Meaning:

The son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alexander II; Alexander the Liberator; Czar Alexander II

Instance hypernyms:

czar; tsar; tzar (a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917))

Domain region:

Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)