See alderman in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Terms with Finnish translations",
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"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
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"word": "aldermanate"
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"word": "aldermancy"
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"word": "aldermaness"
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"word": "alderman hung in chains"
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"word": "alderman in chains"
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"word": "aldermanity"
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"word": "aldermanlike"
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{
"word": "alderman lizard"
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{
"word": "aldermanly"
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"word": "aldermanry"
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"word": "aldermanship"
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{
"word": "alderperson"
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"town"
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"ref": "1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:",
"text": "The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.",
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"ref": "[1859, J. C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:",
"text": "Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.",
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],
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]
},
{
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Smoking"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1843, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, volume 10, page 419:",
"text": "In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A long pipe for smoking."
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"(smoking) A long pipe for smoking."
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},
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"ref": "1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 13, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:",
"text": "He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. […] And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.",
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"ipa": "/ˈɔːldəmən/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒl-/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/ˈɔldəɹmən/",
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"General-American"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "avaganu andam",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"word": "ավագանու անդամ"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "obecní starší"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "radní"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "konšel"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "wethouder"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "schepen"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"word": "skabeno"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"word": "linnavolinik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "current",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"word": "valtuutettu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"word": "raatimies"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"word": "kaupunginisä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "échevin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "conseiller municipal"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "concelleiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "concelleira"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rexedor"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rexedora"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schöffe"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dimotikós sýmvoulos",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "δημοτικός σύμβουλος"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"word": "skabino"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aldermanno"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ławnik"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "radny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vereador"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vereadora"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "edil"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "consilier"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "consilieră"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "concejal"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "regidor"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "henadur"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "wethâlder"
}
],
"word": "alderman"
}
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