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burgh
English
Etymology
From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”).
Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian ???? (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b???/
- Homophone: borough
- Rhymes: -?r?
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??/
- Homophones: berg, burg
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Noun
burgh (plural burghs)
- (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
- (Britain) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, [1]
- With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,
- This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, [1]
Derived terms
- Blythburgh
- Edinburgh
- royal burgh
Translations
Anagrams
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burgs
English
Noun
burgs
- plural of burg
Anagrams
- grubs
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