Alfred

Origin

From Old English Ælfræd, from ælf- = "elf" + -ræd or -rēd = "counsel".

Full definition of Alfred

Proper noun

1. Alfred the Great, early king of England
2. .
• 1980 Graham Greene: Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb PartyUnfortunately 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 the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.
• 1998 Steven Herrick, A Place Like This, Univ. of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702229849, page 86: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.

Related terms

• Alf, Alfie
• Alfreda

Anagrams

• fardel
• flared