alder

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɔːldə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
    — 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.
  2. An alderman or alderwoman.
    — Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.

词形变化

alders plural owler alternative aller alternative,UK,dialectal alders plural owler alternative aller alternative,UK,dialectal

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō.
词源 2
Clipping of alderman.
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