Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Informal A city or town.
- noun A fortified or walled town in early or medieval Europe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fortified town; a borough (which see).
- noun Same as
brough .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A fortified town.
- noun engraving A borough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun North America A
city ortown . - noun historical A
fortified town inmedieval Europe.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun colloquial American term for a town
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The burg is faking alien visitation to get more tourists, with a museum and UFO-themed snacks, and among their exhibits is a purported alien body.
*The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service — Recommended Series » Manga Worth Reading 2010
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But to me the most arresting part of Jo'burg is the huge piles of slag which surround and ring the city.
By Jet to Jo'burg 1953
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Jo'burg is filled with corner lots and narrow streets, consequently the city is congested.
By Jet to Jo'burg 1953
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Right up until you realise that Jo’burg is a summer rainfall area and it is now winter.
Think Progress » Are you ready for some football global warming? 2006
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The earth is fashioned round without, and there beyond, round about it lies the deep sea; and on that sea-strand the gods gave land for an abode to the giant kind, but within on the earth made they a burg round the world against restless giants, and for this burg reared they the brows of Ymir, and called the burg Midgard.
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The earth is fashioned round without, and there beyond, round about it lies the deep sea; and on that sea-strand the gods gave land for an abode to the giant kind, but within on the earth made they a burg round the world against restless giants, and for this burg reared they the brows of Ymir, and called the burg Midgard.
The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873
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Lucky Kunene is a carjacker-turned-property-racketeer who exploits poor black tenants in Jo'burg's shabby housing blocks, scheming rent-strikes and squat-takeovers against nervy white landlords.
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And like you said about Heidelberg, F'burg's got a ton of students but the youth/artsy vibe is missing, or at least well hidden.
We'll meet again, Dresden C N Heidelberg 2007
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On the 40th anniversary, Ed Bradley, who was a football player for Cheyney State, which played against other state colleges, powerhouses like Kutztown or any school ending with the last four letters "burg".
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And Jo'burg's landscape is strewn with the waste of one hundred years of resource extraction; in the service of which South Africa's racial hierarchy was constructed with violent determination.
ANC STATEMENT TO THE GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2002
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