aldermanic
/ˌɔldəɹˈmænɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.62 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to an alderman (“member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town”) or group of aldermen.
Example Sentences
- "The Board of Councilmen last night made an active attempt to pass a reduced Japanese bill, without giving the items; […] The proposed reduction is a substantial one, cutting down the total of the bill from $105,000, the Aldermanic figure, to $90,000, which must be somewhere in the neighborhood of an honest amount. But why do the Councilmen, while acting to this extent in the public interest, refuse to give us the items as originally rendered by the Reception Committee of the Board of Aldermen?"
- "The first feature that I would say is desirable, as I read it, is that it is a nonpartisan bill, similar to our aldermanic campaigns in Chicago."
- "Former St. Louis Mayor Vincent Schoemehl remembers them [Michael Victor Roberts and Steven Craig Roberts] from their aldermanic days as sensible. "They weren't get-in-the way guys," he says. "You could approach them with a reasonable proposition and get a reasonable response.""
- "Let's just say the city is not well served by the tradition of aldermanic courtesy."
- "The male trout of this weight, however finely marked with various tints of blue, crimson, and gold, tends dangerously to aldermanic girth […]"
- "True to his Scots ancestry, Mr. McLeay [i.e., John McLeay Sr.] said his gardening was strictly utilitarian. In the first place it had been the means of reducing his still aldermanic figure by a stone in weight to about 16½ st."
Etymology
From alderman + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Piecewise doublet of ealdormanic.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɔldəɹˈmænɪk/
- British English: /ˌɔːldəˈmænɪk/
Inflected Forms
more aldermanic (comparative)
most aldermanic (superlative)