ealdorman
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English ealdormann. See alderman (from Old English aldormann).
Noun
ealdorman (plural ealdormen)
- (historical) The chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.
Derived terms
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ealdor (“elder”) + man (“person”)
Pronunciation
Noun
ealdorman m
- an elderman; senator, chief, duke, a nobleman of the highest rank and holding an office inferior only to that of the king
- an alderman
- governor
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
- Þeos towritennys wearð aræred fram ðam ealdormen Cyrino, of Sirian lande, þæt ælc man oferhēafod sceolde cennan his gebyrde, and his áre on ðære byrig þe hé to gehyrde.
- This enrolment was set forth from Cyrenius, the governor of Syria—that every man in general should declare his birth and his possession in the city to which he belonged.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"