alder

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

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

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔːldə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US, Canada)
    • (without cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɔldɚ/
    • (with cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑldɚ/

Noun

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.
Derived terms
alder species
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of alderman.

Noun

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.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

alder c (singular definite alderen, plural indefinite aldre)

  1. age

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

Derived terms
Terms derived from “alder”
  • alderdom c
  • alderdomshjem n
  • aldersbestemme
  • aldersdiabetes c
  • aldersdiabetiker c
  • aldersformand c
  • aldersgruppe c
  • aldersgrænse c
  • alderspension c
  • alderspensionist c
  • alderspræsident c
  • aldersspredning c
  • alderssvarende
  • alderstegen
  • barnealder c
  • bronzealder c
  • førskolealder c
  • gennemsnitsalder c
  • guldalder c
  • højmiddelalder c
  • jernalder c
  • lavalder c
  • levealder c
  • lømmelalder c
  • menneskealder c
  • middelalder c
  • myndighedsalder c
  • overgangsalder c
  • pensionsalder c
  • senmiddelalder c
  • stenalder c
  • sølvalder c
  • tidsalder c
  • trodsalder c
  • ungpigealder c
  • voksealder c
  • voksenalder c
  • værnepligtsalder c

Middle English

Noun

alder

  1. Alternative form of aldre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. age

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑldɛr/

Noun

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

  1. age

Derived terms

References

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

alder

  1. all
  2. whole, complete
Declension
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
Descendants
  • Swedish: all

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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 alder (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
Descendants
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