Burgh Definition

bûrg
noun
A borough.
Webster's New World
In Scotland, an incorporated or chartered town.
Webster's New World

(Sussex) A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

Wiktionary
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Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Burgh

Noun

Singular:
burgh
Plural:
burghs

Origin of Burgh

  • From Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”). Cognate with Dutch burg, German Burg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; fort, battlement”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Scots variant of borough

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Burgh Sentence Examples

  • Galashiels was created into a burgh of barony in 1599.

  • Hubert de Burgh was the last of the great justiciars; after his fall (1231) the justiciarship was not again committed to a great baron, and the chancellor soon took the position formerly occupied by the justiciar as second to the king in dignity, as well as in power and influence.

  • A huge car drawn by oxen, bearing the standard of the burgh, and carrying an altar with the host, this carroccio, like the ark of the Israelites, formed a rallying point in battle, and reminded the armed artisans that they had a city and a church to fight for.

  • The introduction of the factions into Florence in 1215, owing to a private quarrel between the Buondelmonti, Amidei and Donati, is a celebrated instance of what was happening in every burgh.

  • There is not a burgh of northern Italy but can trace the rise of a dynastic house to the vicissitudes of this period.

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