Alewife - MBTA station - was created in 1985.

An alewife is a type of herring and also an obsolete term for a woman barkeeper.

The Alewife, commonly known as Mulhaden, Grey Herring and Golden Shad, is a species of fish native to Lake Ontario. The binomial name for the Alewife is Alosa pseudoharengus.

An alewife is an archaic term for a woman who keeps an alehouse, or any of a variety of North American fish.

An alewife is a fish; a northwestern Atlantic fish of the herring family that can also be found in the Great Lakes.