Alfred

[al-fred, -frid]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Alfred Hitchcock, who along with David O. Selznick turned “Rebecca” into an Oscar-winning film in 1940, also adapted one of the short stories in this collection.

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The author was convicted after he lost a libel trial against Lord Queensberry, who had accused him of being homosexual after discovering that his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, aka Bosie, was Wilde's lover.

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The economics prize is the only Nobel not among the original five created in the will of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896.

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Plenty of other renaming ideas have been floated, including changing the name of the Eastern Cape seaside town of Port Alfred, which commemorates Queen Victoria's second son.

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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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