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aldermanates

aldermanates is the plural of aldermanate.

Meaning of aldermanate

Noun

aldermanate (usually uncountable, plural aldermanates)

  1. (usually) The office of an alderman; the municipal legislative body of a city or town.
    • As York was not divided into wards before the reign of Charles II, we must trace the existence of the aldermanate either to the ancient guild system, or to the combination of the merchant guild with the leet jury.1880, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England
  2. (usually) The members of the aldermanate, collectively.
    • The Lord Mayor and the aldermanate, who knew nothing about Finbar, were delighted to accept his generous offer.2006, Michael O'Donnell, Doctor Donovan's Bequest: Tales from the Slagthorpe Archive

Questions about aldermanates

What is aldermanates the plural of?
Aldermanates is the plural of aldermanate.

Words near aldermanates in the dictionary

  1. alderman hung in chains
  2. alderman in chains
  3. alderman lizard
  4. alderman lizards
  5. aldermanate
  6. aldermanates
  7. aldermancies
  8. aldermancy
  9. aldermaness
  10. aldermanesses
  11. aldermanic

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