Noun: alder
| Singular | alder |
| Plural | alders |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37:]
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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. [1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:]
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That's what the tiercel was doing when I found him again in the alder. [1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 40:]
Nouns inflected like alder
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English aldre, alder, aller, from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aluʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō, *alizō, *alisō. See: Middle English Nouns '
aldre', Middle English Nouns '
aldre', Old English Nouns '
alor'.
Verbs referencing "alder"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
or, Danish Nouns
el, Swedish Nouns
al, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
older, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
older, German Nouns
Erle, Dutch Nouns
els, Spanish Nouns
aliso.