English Dictionary

alderman

名詞

イギリス英語 歴史的 廃用 俗語 アメリカ英語

A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town. / (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence. / A long pipe for smoking. / (US, slang) A potbelly, paunch.

日本語の意味

市町村の議会に所属する議員 / （英国、歴史的・廃語的な意味）30ペンス相当の半クラウン硬貨 / 喫煙用の長いパイプ / （米国スラング）ぽっちゃりした腹部

The alderman proposed a new ordinance to improve pedestrian safety near the downtown school.

その市議会議員は繁華街の学校近くで歩行者の安全を向上させるための新しい条例を提案した。

意味（1）

A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

意味（2）

(UK, historical, obsolete slang) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

意味（3）

A long pipe for smoking.

In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.

意味（4）

(US, slang) A potbelly, paunch.

He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. … And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.

aldermen （ plural ）