alderman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
smoking
Etymology: From Middle English alderman, aldermon, from Old English ealdorman, ealdormann, from ealdor (“elder, parent, chief, prince, author”) + mann (“person”). Doublet of ealdorman.
Inflected forms:
form: aldermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.
pos: noun
gloss: A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
obsolete
slang
examples: 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.
Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
gloss: A long pipe for smoking.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch, a potbelly.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. […] And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.
gloss: Synonym of starosta
pos: noun
examples: Beſides theſe two Gentlemen, and Secretaries that order the whole Citie, there are Staruſts or Aldermen for euerie ſeuerall companie. The Alderman hath his Sotskey or Conſtable, and the Conſtable hath certeine Decetskeis or Decurions vnder him, which haue the ouerſight of ten houſholds a peece, whereby euerie diſorder is ſooner ſpide, and the common ſeruice hath the quicker diſpach. The whole number of Citizens poore and rich are reduced into companies. The chiefe officers (as the Dyacks and Gentlemen) are appointed by the Emperour himſelfe, the Staruſt by the Gentlemen and Dyacks, the Sotskoy by the Staruſt or Alderman, and the Decetskotes by the Conſtables.
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.
The family name of a person is but rarely used and sometimes it is almost ignored, people being addressed and spoken of by the name of the farm to which they belong. The family names represented in the village are either derived from Christian names: Filip (Philip), Janacek (Jacky): or they designate a position or occupation: Pohúnek (farm-apprentice), Starosta (alderman), Dráb (constable), or they are borrowed from natural history: Zízala (dew-worm), Skvor (earwig), Vosicky (aspen-tree).
Sometimes envoys, noblemen (dvorjane), summoners (podvojskie), aldermen (starosty), and merchants also appear under their first name only: for example, the dvorjane Stepanko and Ivanko (Doc. No. †92, dated 1400/25), the podvojskie Olferei and Feodor (Doc. No. 327, 15th c.), the starosta Vasilʹ (Doc. No. †922, 15th c.), the kupcy Makarьja, Oksentei and Grigorьja (Doc. No. †56, before 1417).
Synonyms: baillie
Derived words: aldermanate
alderman-at-large
aldermancy
aldermaness
alderman hung in chains
alderman in chains
aldermanic
aldermanity
aldermanlike
alderman lizard
aldermanly
aldermanry
aldermanship
alderperson
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