WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Alexander the Great
    n 1: king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia;
         founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC) [syn: Alexander,
         Alexander the Great]

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.