Alfred

[al-fred, -frid]

noun

1. a first name: from the Old English words meaning “elf ” and “counsel.”

Example Sentences

Updike worried that his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, would turn it down and that its appearance in England might even send him to jail.

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After several of his own run-ins with Cooper, Alfred Barr Jr., the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, judged him to be filled with “unbridled malice.”

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"We base our decision only on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel," he said.

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Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, established the peace prize in his will, saying it should go to the person or group “who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations.”

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Krasznahorkai will receive the award from King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist and prize creator Alfred Nobel.

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