Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lively; brisk; sprightly; cheerful; gay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Gay; cheerful; sprightly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete gay; cheerful; sprightly

Etymologies

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French allègre, earlier alègre, from Latin alacer.

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Examples

  • (opium) of which the Turks are great takers (supposing it expelleth all fear), do all condense the spirits, and make them strong and aleger.

    All About Coffee 1909

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  • JM is an aleger fellow, and so say all of us!!

    May 3, 2010

  • JM is an aleger fellow, and so say all of us!!

    May 3, 2010