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alderman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alderman \Al"der*man\ ([add]l"d[~e]r*man), n.; pl. Aldermen. [AS. aldormon, ealdorman; ealdor an elder + man. See Elder, n.] 1. A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]
Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying superior wisdom or authority. Thus Ethelstan, duke of the East-Anglians, was called Alderman of all England; and there were aldermen of cities, counties, and castles, who had jurisdiction within their respective districts.
3. One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English aldormonn (Mercian), ealdormann (West Saxon) "ruler, prince, chief; chief officer of a shire," from aldor, ealder "patriarch" (comparative of ald "old;" see old) + monn, mann "man" (see man (n.)). A relic of the days when the elders were automatically in charge of the clan or tribe, but already in Old English used for king's viceroys, regardless of age. The word yielded in Old English to eorl, and after the Norman Conquest to count (n.). Meaning "headman of a guild" (early 12c.) passed to "magistrate of a city" (c.1200) as the guilds became identified with municipal government.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A member of several municipal legislative bodies in a city or town. 2 (context UK historical obsolete slang English) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence. 3 (context 1811 English) A roasted turkey. (only used in alderman in chains English) and '''(l en alderman hung in chains)'''.
WordNet
n. a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
Wikipedia
An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members themselves rather than by popular vote, or a council member elected by voters.
The title is derived from the Old English title of ealdorman, literally meaning "elder man", and was used by the chief nobles presiding over shires.
Similar titles exist in Germany and in Scandinavian countries, such as the German Ältester, the Swedish Ålderman and the Danish Olderman, which all mean "elder man" or "wise man".
Alderman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Alderman (1907–90), English cricketer
- Clifford Lindsey Alderman (1902–88), American historical novelist
- Edwin Alderman (1861–1931), American academic, President of three universities
- Fred Alderman (1905–98), American athlete
- Geoffrey Alderman (born 1944), British historian
- Grady Alderman (born 1938), American footballer
- Jack Alderman (1956–2008), American criminal
- James Alderman (died 1929), American alcohol smuggler
- James Alderman (mayor), elected Mayor of London in 1216
- John Alderman (17th century), American assassin
- Naomi Alderman (born 1974), British author and novelist
- Terry Alderman (born 1956), Australian cricketer
Fictional characters:
- Ariel Alderman, a fictional Neo-Nazi character in Nip/Tuck
Category:English-language surnames
Usage examples of "alderman".
The city militia, influenced by two aldermen, Tichburn and Ireton, expressed the same resolution of adhering to the good old cause.
Another alderman, Nicholas Exton, of Queenhithe Ward, had recently been removed from his aldermancy for opprobrious words used to Northampton during his first mayoralty.
John Brown was elected alderman of Farringdon Within shortly afterwards, but he was discharged by the Common Council, and the aldermanry was subsequently filled by John Hardy being translated to it from Aldersgate Ward.
All three aldermen were deposed from their aldermanries by order of an assembly of citizens composed of representatives from the various guilds and not from the wards.
March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper.
The mayor of Youghal, in giving evidence against her, said there were three aldermen, whose children had been bewitched to death by the accused kissing the little ones.
Gray bicentenary, which took place on December 26th, 1916, the Dean of Norwich, who is a member of the Public Library Committee, delivered a lecture on Thomas Gray at the Technical Institute on December 15th, when the Deputy Mayor, Alderman H.
Dobbin, the despised grocer, was Alderman Dobbin--Alderman Dobbin was Colonel of the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion.
Then I demaunded, Whether she knew one Milo an Alderman of the city : Whereat she laughed and said : Verily it is not without cause that Milo is called an Elderman, and accounted as chiefe of those which dwel without the walls of the City.
I wrote out a formal release, and in his presence and in that of the alderman I burnt the four notes and set him free.
He was lodged in the house of William de Leyre, an alderman of the city, situate in the parish of All Hallows at the Hay or All Hallows the Great.
King Henry VIII was about to make an expedition to France in 1544, the Court of Aldermen gave notice to the Bishop of London that the obit of Henry VII would be kept on Friday, the 16th May, on which day there would be a general procession, and that the observance would be continued until the king departed out of the realm, and then on every Friday and Wednesday until his return.
Hullinger, Reiter, Rench, Dowd, Albritton, Eggert, Alderman, Jenkins, Hyatt, McCroan, Featherman.
Wednesday, the last day of April, in the 7th year of King Henry the Fifth, by William Sevenok, the Mayor, and the Aldermen of London, it was ordered and established that no vadlet, or other sergeant of the Mayor, Sheriffs, or City, should in future beg or require of any person, of any rank, degree, or condition whatsoever, any moneys, under colour of an oblation, or in any other way, on pain of losing his office.
I prognosticated how it voud be, ven the alderman patronised him last veek by throwing avay a whole shilling upon his fooleries.