ealdorman
/eɪˈaldəmən/ /ˈaldəmən/(also alderman) historical in later use
noun
In Anglo-Saxon England: a man who rules over a large area or a shire, usually subject to the king. Also used as a title placed immediately before (and in Old English also immediately after) a name.
Origin
Old English. Probably cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian aldermon head of a district or town, counsellor of an abbot from the Germanic base of alder + the Germanic base of man.
- self-similar
- self-similarity
- self-slaughter
- self-soothe
- self-sow
- self-standing
- self-starter
- self-starting
- self-sterile
- self-sterility
- self-stick
- self-stimulation
- self-storage
- self-study
- self-styled
- self-subsistent
- self-sufficiency
- self-sufficient
- self-sufficiently
- self-sufficing
- self-suggestion
- self-support
- self-supporting
- self-surrender
- self-sustained