Alfred

[al-fred, -frid]

noun

1. a first name: from the Old English words meaning “elf ” and “counsel.”

Example Sentences

Publishing house Alfred A. Knopf announced on Sunday that Virginia Giuffre‘s memoir, entitled “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” will hit the shelves on October 21.

From Salon

Publishing house Alfred A Knopf said Ms Giuffre had made clear weeks before her death that it was her "heartfelt wish" the memoir would be still be released in the event of her passing.

From BBC

The Royal Mint has made the circulating coinage of each of Britain's monarchs since Alfred the Great.

From BBC

Royal Navy veteran Alfred Conway, from Lincolnshire, watched as his great-grandchildren laid a wreath on the Burma Thailand Railway memorial at the Arboretum.

From BBC

“It’s really like a shrine for me,” he says, recalling seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” there on true VistaVision.

From Los Angeles Times