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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Alexander the Great
      n : king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia;
          founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC) [syn: Alexander]

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Alexander the Great
    the king of Macedonia, the great conqueror; probably represented
    in Daniel by the "belly of brass" (Dan. 2:32), and the leopard
    and the he-goat (7:6; 11:3,4). He succeeded his father Philip,
    and died at the age of thirty-two from the effects of
    intemperance, B.C. 323. His empire was divided among his four
    generals.