alderman
noun
a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
aldermanship
-
a word derived from
alderman.
Example Sentences
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This year Thored, the son of Gunner, plundered Westmorland; and the same year Oslac took to the aldermanship.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
