Alderman

Quick meaning: Alderman is a noun meaning A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

Meaning

A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

More Meanings

1. (UK, historical, slang, obsolete) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.
2. (smoking) A long pipe for smoking.
3. (US, slang) A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch, a potbelly.
4. Synonym of starosta

Example Sentences

The chief man of a vollost is a Zasidatil; the chief man of a village is a Starosta, or alderman.

Both the Council and the Department are presided over by a District Alderman (starosta) nominated by the Ministry of the Interior, and performing a series of purely administrative duties.

In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.

The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.

Word Forms

• aldermen

Synonyms for alderman

Depending on context, synonyms include baillie, starosta.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include councilman, councillor, municipal, counsellor, counselor, consultant.

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