wardmaster
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ward + master, partly after Dutch wijkmeester.
Noun[edit]
wardmaster (plural wardmasters)
- (now historical) An alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony. [from 19th c.]
- 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 310:
- Elections as wardmaster or commissioner on the council were open to all ethnicities but not to all classes, or to women.
- The superintendent of a hospital ward. [from 19th c.]