ealdorman

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) an elderman; senator, chief, duke, a nobleman of the highest rank and holding an office inferior only to that of the king
 * 2) an alderman
 * 3) governor
 * 4) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- Þeos towritennys wearð aræred fram ðam ealdormen Cyrino, of Sirian lande, þæt ælc man oferhēafod sceolde cennan his gebyrde, and his áre on ðære byrig þe hé to gehyrde.