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alder

See also: Alder, Alder., ålder, and âlder

English

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Grey alder, Alnus incana.
 
Female (left) and male (right) catkins of Alnus serrulata

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō.

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Noun

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alder (plural alders)

  1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
    • 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37:
      I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
    • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:
      Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
    • 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 40:
      That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder.
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alder species
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of alderman.

Noun

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alder (plural alders)

  1. An alderman or alderwoman.
    • 2004, Stephanie Luce -, Fighting for a Living Wage, page 121:
      Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.
    • 2013, Dawn Day Biehler, Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats, page 180:
      Chicago's mayor Edward Kennelly, the city alders, and many white Chicagoans opposed this siting plan.
    • 2017 September 28, Isabel Bysiewicz, “Eidelson reflects on time as alder”, in Yale Daily News:
      After three years as Ward 1 alder, Sarah Eidelson ’12 will leave city government at the end of the year.
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Danish

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Etymology

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Derived from Old Danish aldær, from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą.

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alder c (singular definite alderen, plural indefinite aldre)

  1. age

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Declension of alder
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative alder alderen aldre aldrene
genitive alders alderens aldres aldrenes

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Middle English

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alder

  1. Alternative form of aldre

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

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alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldere or aldre or aldrer, definite plural alderne or aldrene)

  1. age

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Akin to ale (“to raise”), from ala.

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alder m (definite singular alderen, indefinite plural aldrar, definite plural aldrane)

  1. age

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Old Swedish

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

Adjective

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alder

  1. all
  2. whole, complete
Declension
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Declension of alder (strong)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative alder al alt
accusative allan alla alt
dative allum
allom 		aldri
aldri 		allu
allo
genitive als aldrar als
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative allir
aller 		allar al
accusative alla allar al
dative allum
allom 		allum
allom 		allum
allom
genitive aldra
aldra 		aldra
aldra 		aldra
aldra
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  • Swedish: all

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą.

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alder m

  1. lifetime
  2. age (how old someone or something is)
  3. age, era
  4. old age
Declension
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Declension of aldrer (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative aldrer aldrrin aldrar aldranir, aldraner
accusative aldr aldrin aldra aldrana
dative aldri, aldre aldrinum, aldrenom aldrum, aldrom aldrumin, aldromen
genitive aldrs aldrsins aldra aldranna
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