Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or like an alderman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
- adjective Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In the manner of an
alderman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or like an alderman
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Examples
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M. Wastchenko possesses in an eminent degree what Swift calls the aldermanly, but never to be over estimated quality, Discretion; he was considered generally a very safe man.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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