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Alder

//ˈɔldɚ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived by alder trees.

Noun

1
Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
"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."
2
An alderman or alderwoman.
"Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance."
3
north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant wordnet
4
wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of alderman.

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