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Al⋅den

[awl-duhn]
–noun
1. John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
2. a male or female given name: from an Old English word meaning “old friend.”
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Al·den   (ôl'dən)   
Pilgrim colonist and political figure whose courtship of Priscilla Mullins (born c. 1602) is the subject of a popular legend.
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