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alderman 音標拼音: ['ɔldɚmən] ['ældɚmən] n. 市府參事,市議員 市府參事,市議員 alderman n 1: a member of a municipal legislative body ( as a city council); " aldermen usually represent city wards" 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.] [ 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. [ 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, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, archon, assemblyman, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, 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, whipALDERMAN. An officer, generally appointed or elected in towns corporate, orcities, possessing various powers in different places. 2. The aldermen of the cities of Pennsylvania, possess all the powersand jurisdictions civil and criminal of justices of the peace. They arebesides, in conjunction with the respective mayors or recorders, judges ofthe mayor' s courts. 3. Among the Saxons there was an officer called the ealderman. ealdorman, or aldernwn, which appellation signified literally elderman. Likethe Roman senator, he was so called, not on account of his age, but becauseof his wisdom and dignity, non propter oetatem sed propter sapientism etdignitatem. He presided with the bishop at the scyregemote, and was, exofficio, a member of the witenagemote. At one time he was a militaryofficer, but afterwards his office was purely judicial. 4. There were several kinds of aldermen, as king' s aldermen, aldermenof all England, aldermen of the county, aldermen of the hundred, & c., todenote difference of rank and jurisdiction.
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