different between burgess vs burgees

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Etymology

From Middle English burgeis, from Anglo-Norman burgeis, of Proto-Germanic origin; either from Late Latin burgensis (from Latin *burgus), or from Frankish, both from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??-. See also bourgeois, burgish.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??d??s/

Noun

burgess (plural burgesses)

1. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.

   • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.

2. (historical) A town magistrate.
3. (historical, Britain) A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
4. (historical, US) A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.

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Noun

burgees

1. plural of burgee

Anagrams

• Guebers, Guebres