ælfred
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Alfred (“Alfred the Great”).
Example Sentences
- "But if men like Ælfred belong to every people and to every age in the circuit of the human mind, yet, next to the posterity of his own countrymen, the German,—whose speech and culture will by continued research gather many golden fruits sown by Ælfred,—with joyful pride may say, “The man is near of kin unto us.”"
- "In either case, however, his [the king’s] individual capacities exercise a most important effect upon the government of the state. The magnitude of that effect in pre-Norman times may be estimated by the fact, that an Ælfred could save the nation, while an Æthelred could reduce it to the verge of ruin."
- "It was in the peace and order which this strict rule secured that the Flemings toiled their way to wealth. The counts understood and identified themselves with their people’s love of industry and freedom, and Arnulf the Old, our Ælfred’s grandson by the mother’s side, became the Ælfred of Flemish history."
- "Without the defensive and offensive advantages of garrisoned fortifications, Ælfred could not hope to expel such large forces; nor could he concentrate his attack on one for fear of allowing the other to penetrate west into Wessex with impunity."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English Ælfrēd.