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Burgh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A chartered town or borough in Scotland.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

n. a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See borough.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a borough in Scotland

Word Usage

"You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

borough

Cross Reference

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Variant

borough

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

tow

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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