ealdorman

ealdorman englanniksi

1. The chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.

2. an elderman; senator, chief, duke, a nobleman of the highest rank and holding an office inferior only to that of the king

3. an alderman

4. governor

5. c. 992, of Eynsham|Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"

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