alderman 音标拼音: ['ɔldɚmən] ['ældɚmən]
n . 市府参事,市议员
市府参事,市议员
alderman n 1 :
a member of a municipal legislative body (
as a city council ); "
aldermen usually represent city wards "
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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 .]
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "
alderman ":
MP ,
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archon ,
assemblyman ,
bailie ,
burghermaster ,
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cabinet member ,
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chancellor ,
chosen freeholder ,
city councilman ,
city father ,
city manager ,
commissar ,
commissioner ,
congressman ,
congresswoman ,
councillor ,
councilman ,
councilwoman ,
county commissioner ,
county supervisor ,
elder ,
floor leader ,
headman ,
induna ,
lawgiver ,
lawmaker ,
legislator ,
lord mayor ,
magistrate ,
maire ,
majority leader ,
mayor ,
minister ,
minister of state ,
minority leader ,
party whip ,
portreeve ,
reeve ,
representative ,
secretary ,
secretary of state ,
selectman ,
senator ,
solon ,
state senator ,
supervisor ,
syndic ,
undersecretary ,
warden ,
whip ALDERMAN .
An officer ,
generally appointed or elected in towns corporate ,
or cities ,
possessing various powers in different places .
2 .
The aldermen of the cities of Pennsylvania ,
possess all the powers and jurisdictions civil and criminal of justices of the peace .
They are besides ,
in conjunction with the respective mayors or recorders ,
judges of the mayor '
s courts .
3 .
Among the Saxons there was an officer called the ealderman .
ealdorman ,
or aldernwn ,
which appellation signified literally elderman .
Like the Roman senator ,
he was so called ,
not on account of his age ,
but because of his wisdom and dignity ,
non propter oetatem sed propter sapientism et dignitatem .
He presided with the bishop at the scyregemote ,
and was ,
ex officio ,
a member of the witenagemote .
At one time he was a military officer ,
but afterwards his office was purely judicial .
4 .
There were several kinds of aldermen ,
as king '
s aldermen ,
aldermen of all England ,
aldermen of the county ,
aldermen of the hundred , &
c .,
to denote difference of rank and jurisdiction .
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