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Definition
a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) in some towns and cities in the U.S., Canada and Australia
- My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar's-Head Tavern (60% in)
There are no more uses of "alderman" in Henry IV, Part 1.
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