ALDERMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alderman mean? 

• ALDERMAN (noun)
  The noun ALDERMAN has 1 sense:

1. a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council)

  Familiarity information: ALDERMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALDERMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

aldermen usually represent city wards

Hypernyms ("alderman" is a kind of...):

representative (a person who represents others)

Derivation:

aldermanic; aldermanly (of or relating to or like an alderman)

 Context examples 

This to the alderman of Norwich, who had listened to him with a frowning brow and a sneering lip.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At this crowning insult the sompnour, with a face ashen with rage, raised up a quivering hand and began pouring Latin imprecations upon the angry alderman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nor is it,” said Alleyne, “part of the teachings of that mother Church of which he had so much to say. There was sooth in what the alderman said of it.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I perceive, master alderman, that this man who hangs here is, by mark of foot, the very robber-knight of whom we have spoken.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By Saint Paul! quoth Sir Nigel, it is very clear to me that the sword is like thyself, good alderman, apt either for war or for peace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet, if the dangers of the road weigh so heavily upon you, master alderman, it is a great marvel to me that you should venture so far from home.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Stoutly spoken, master alderman!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir knight, said he, my name is David Micheldene, and I am a burgher and alderman of the good town of Norwich, where I live five doors from the church of Our Lady, as all men know on the banks of Yare.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)