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n. (surname from=German dot=) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) ancestry.
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Adelman or Adelmann is a surname of Ashkenazic Jewish and German origin, and means "nobleman", being a combination of "adel" (nobility) and "mann" (man). The name may refer to:
Usage examples of "adelman".
It was possible she was one of those unfortunate arbites who had been unnaturally pampered, petted, and brought up by some Adelman family to feel almost as if she was one of the upper classes.
They were not Adelmen or Adelwomen, who under these same conditions would have felt an inner duty to maintain their self-control and not to give way to unseemly fears or yield in any way to the situation, no matter how unendurable.
He had spoken with his one-time aide and friend Ken Adelman, who had been head of arms control in the Reagan administration.
Cheney did not communicate directly with Adelman on such matters but he passed word to a mutual friend, who called Adelman right after his article appeared to report the vice president’s reaction.
When John Kennedy was elected by the narrowest of margins, Adelman said, he told everyone in his administration that the big-agenda items like civil rights would have to wait for a second term.