Alfred

Proper noun

Alfred

1. (individuals) Alfred the Great, early king of England.
2. A male given name from Old English.
   • Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in...1980, Graham Greene, Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party (fiction), →OCLC
   • You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This (fiction), University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86
3. (rare) A surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A town, the county seat of York County, Maine.
5. A town and village therein, in Allegany County, New York.
6. An unincorporated community in LaMoure County, North Dakota.
7. A census-designated place in Jim Wells County, Texas.
8. A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.