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Inherited from Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō.

alder (plural alders)

  1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
    • 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37:
      I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
    • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:
      Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
    • 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 40:
      That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder.

any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus

Clipping of alderman.

alder (plural alders)

  1. An alderman or alderwoman.
    • 2004, Stephanie Luce -, Fighting for a Living Wage, page 121:
      Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.
    • 2013, Dawn Day Biehler, Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats, page 180:
      Chicago's mayor Edward Kennelly, the city alders, and many white Chicagoans opposed this siting plan.
    • 2017 September 28, Isabel Bysiewicz, “Eidelson reflects on time as alder”, in Yale Daily News:
      After three years as Ward 1 alder, Sarah Eidelson ’12 will leave city government at the end of the year.

From Old Danish aldær, from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą.

alder c (singular definite alderen, plural indefinite aldre)

  1. age

Inherited from Old English ealdr-, oblique stem of ealdor m (“parent, ruler”),[1][2] possibly a secondary masculine built to ealdor n (“life”).[3]

alder (plural alderes)

  1. (rare, poetic, literary) A leader or ruler.

  2. ^ “alder, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

  3. ^ “alderman, n.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

  4. ^ Bammesberger, Alfred (1 September 2003), “The Provenance of the Old English Suffix _-estre_”, in North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE), volume 43, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60.

alder

  1. alternative form of aldre

Inherited from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldere or aldre or aldrer, definite plural alderne or aldrene)

  1. age

Inherited from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldrar, definite plural aldrane)

  1. age

From al (“wholly”) +‎ thēr (“there”).

aldēr

  1. then
  2. when

aldēr

  1. when
  2. if, in case that

Inherited from Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

alder

  1. all
  2. whole, complete

Inherited from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą.

alder m

  1. lifetime
  2. age (how old someone or something is)
  3. age, era
  4. old age

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