Definitions for burgh
ˈbɜr oʊ, ˈbʌr oʊ, ˈbɜr ə, ˈbʌr əburgh

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. burghnoun

   a borough in Scotland

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. burghnoun

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

2. burghnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BURGHnoun

   A corporate town or burrow.

   Many towns in Cornwal, when they were first allowed to send burgesses to the parliament, bore another proportion to London than now; for several of these burghs send two burgesses, whereas London itself sends but four. John Graunt.

2. Burrow, Berg, Burg, Burghnoun

   Etymology: derived from the Saxon burg, byrg , a city, tower, or castle. Edmund Gibson Camden.

   1.A corporate town, that is not a city, but such as sends burgesses to the parliament. All places that, in former days, were called borough, were such as were fenced or fortified. John Cowell

   King of England shalt thou be proclaim’d
   In ev’ry burrow, as we pass along. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. iii.

   Possession of land was the original right of election among the commons; and burrows were entitled to sit, as they were possessed of certain tracts. William Temple.

   2. The holes made in the ground by conies.

   When they shall see his crest up again, and the man in blood, they will out of their burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Burgh

   A burgh ( BURR-ə) is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United Kingdom. Following local government reorganisation in 1975, the title of "royal burgh" remains in use in many towns, but now has little more than ceremonial value.

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1. burgh

   A burgh is a term used in Scotland to refer to a town, particularly one that was officially incorporated and given certain rights and privileges under a royal charter. It historically referred to a self-governing municipal corporation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Burghnoun

   a borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Burgh

   A burgh was an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United Kingdom. Following local government reorganisation in 1975 the title of "burgh" remains in use in many towns, but now has little more than ceremonial value.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Burgh

   bur′ō, n. the Scotch word corresponding to the English Borough.—ns. Burg (same as Borough); Burg′age, a system of tenure where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, city, or town, by which the citizens hold their lands or tenements, for a certain annual rent; Burgess (bur′jes), Bur′gher, an inhabitant of a borough: a citizen or freeman: a magistrate of certain towns: one able to take the usual burgesses' oath (see Antiburgher).—adj. Bur′ghal, relating to a burgh.—n. Burg′omaster, the chief magistrate of a German or a Dutch borough, answering to the English term mayor.—Burgh of barony, a corporation consisting of the inhabitants of a determinate tract of land within the barony, and municipally governed by magistrates and a council whose election is either vested in the baron superior of the district, or vested in the inhabitants themselves; Burgh of regality, a burgh of barony, spiritual or temporal, enfranchised by crown charter, with regal or exclusive criminal jurisdiction within their own territories.—Parliamentary burgh, one like Paisley, Greenock, Leith, whose boundaries, as first fixed in 1832, were adopted for municipal purposes, with regard to which they stand practically in the same position as royal burghs; Police burgh, a burgh constituted by the sheriff for purposes of improvement and police, the local authority being the police commissioners; Royal burgh, a corporate body deriving its existence, constitution, and rights from a royal charter, such being either actual and express, or presumed to have existed.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BURGH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Burgh is ranked #65964 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Burgh surname appeared 300 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Burgh.
   
   86.3% or 259 total occurrences were White.
   7.3% or 22 total occurrences were Black.
   3% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.6% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Borough

Anagrams for burgh »

1. brugh

How to pronounce burgh?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say burgh in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of burgh in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of burgh in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=burgh
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Burgh
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=burgh
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgh
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burgh
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=burgh
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=burgh
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html