Alderman: alternatives and connections

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…

A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds…

The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degra…

One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of…

The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abase…

One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.

The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austri…

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the sa…

Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or…

The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether pro…

Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in whi…

In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served th…

In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, eit…

A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the…