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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
alderman
n : a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city
council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving
with a pretence of open marauding.
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