'Selectman' definitions:
Definition of 'selectman'
(from WordNet)
noun
An elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns
Definition of 'Selectman'
From: GCIDE
- Selectman \Se*lect"man\, n.; pl. Selectmen. One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. [1913 Webster]
- The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'selectman'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alderman,
- archon,
- bailie,
- burghermaster,
- burgomaster,
- cabinet member,
- cabinet minister,
- chancellor,
- city councilman,
- city father,
- city manager,
- commissar,
- commissioner,
- councillor,
- councilman,
- councilwoman,
- county commissioner,
- county supervisor,
- elder,
- headman,
- induna,
- legislator,
- lord mayor,
- magistrate,
- maire,
- mayor,
- minister,
- minister of state,
- portreeve,
- reeve,
- secretary,
- secretary of state,
- supervisor,
- syndic,
- undersecretary,
- warden