Alderman

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.
2. isim A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.

   “The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.”

3. isim A long pipe for smoking.

   “In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.”

4. isim A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch, a potbelly.

   “He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. […] And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.”

5. isim Synonym of starosta

   “The chief man of a vollost is a Zasidatil; the chief man of a village is a Starosta, or alderman.”

6. özel isim An English surname originating as an occupation.