Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chartered town or borough in Scotland.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corporate town or borough; more especially, the Scotch term corresponding to the English borough, applied to several different kinds of corporations, and to towns and cities in Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See
borough .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Sussex a small
mound , often used in reference totumuli (mostly restricted to place names). - noun UK a
borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision inScotland ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a borough in Scotland
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh.
Notice of Revocation of Independence JDsg 2007
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You will learn that the suffix burgh is pronounced burra (e.g. Edinburgh).
Think Progress » Report: Blair refuses to back Iran strike. 2006
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You will learn that the suffix ‘burgh is pronounced ‘burra’ e.g. Edinburgh.
Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces 2005
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One of the more unflattering features of our burgh are the acres and acres of new and used car lots that now occupy land that contained spectacular desert landscapes.
Arizona Roundup 2006
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Hollande we reached Aachen, as the fond natives call the burgh so dear to Charlemagne.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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The burgh was a great place for suppers too, and never _ceilidh_ nor supper went I to but the daughter of Provost Brown was there before me.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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From thence I propose to move to the neck of Williams - burgh, which is represented as healthy, and where some subsist - ence may be procured; and keep myself unengaged from opera - tions which might interfere with your plan for the campaign, until 1 have the satisfaction of hearing from you.
Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States 1812
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The doftor accompanied us to Kings - burgh, which is called a mile farther; but the eomputation of Sky has no connexion what - ever with the real diftance.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D ... 1785
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As a former 'burgh' girl, my favorite is the North Side Steeler shirt cupcake.
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You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation.
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