wardmaster

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English

Etymology

From ward +‎ master, partly after Dutch wijkmeester.

Noun

wardmaster (plural wardmasters)

  1. (now historical) An alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony.
    • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 310:
      Elections as wardmaster or commissioner on the council were open to all ethnicities but not to all classes, or to women.
  2. The superintendent of a hospital ward.