Alder

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

   “I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.”

2. isim An alderman or alderwoman.

   “Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.”

3. özel isim A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived by alder trees.