Alden
Americannoun
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John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
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a first name: from an Old English word meaning “old friend.”
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The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and other large newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital sued both companies in April 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"If you electrify and you increase coal, then what are you doing?" veteran COP observer and E3G analyst Alden Meyer told AFP in Bonn.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Her best friend, Max, who was unofficially adopted by Suzanna’s parents and is shellacked in cynicism as played by the excellent Alden Ehrenreich, exhorts her to pull herself together and face her “big girl problems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Councillor Robert Alden, leader of the city's Conservative group, wrote an open letter to her inviting her to stand for the party, if she decides to move back to the city.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Alden, John, claimed to have first landed on Plymouth Rock, 290; tradition of his courtship, 300, 301.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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