elderman

A male elder (leader of tribe or community).

Noun

  1. A male elder (leader of tribe or community).
    • Hrothgar and his eldermen lived happily in Hereot Hall until the day that Grendel, a living fiend out of Hell, a Satan who ruled over swamps and marshes, came stalking toward them. - 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich,...

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