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aldermanries

aldermanries is the plural of aldermanry.

Meaning of aldermanry

Noun

aldermanry (countable and uncountable, plural aldermanries)

  1. (countable) A district of a borough having its own alderman; a ward.
    • The Auncient diuision of this Cittie, was into Wardes or Aldermanries: and therefore I will beginne at the East, and so proceede thorough the high and most principall streete of the cittie to the west after this manner.1598–1603, John Stow, edited by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, A Survey of London […] : Reprinted from the text of 1603, volume I, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1908, page 117
  2. (uncountable) The dignity or rank of an alderman.

Questions about aldermanries

What is aldermanries the plural of?
Aldermanries is the plural of aldermanry.

Words near aldermanries in the dictionary

  1. aldermanical
  2. aldermanite
  3. aldermanity
  4. aldermanlike
  5. aldermanly
  6. aldermanries
  7. aldermanry
  8. Aldermans
  9. aldermanship
  10. aldermanships
  11. Aldermaston

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