burgh en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /bɝɡ/ (General-American) spelling pronunciation
- /bɝoʊ/ (General-American)
- /ˈbʌɹə/ (Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈbʌɹoʊ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg. Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.
Meanings
- (qualifier:Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
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(UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.
1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| burghs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Petersburgh · burgher · Musselburgh · Pittsburgh · burghmote · Newburgh · Edithburgh · royal burgh · burghal · parliamentary burgh · Edinburgh · police burgh · burgh of barony · burgh of regality · Blythburgh · burghbote
Translations (3)
gv cochorp (borough or chartered town) · gd borgh (borough or chartered town) · gd baile (borough or chartered town)