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Burgess
//ˈbɜːd͡ʒɪs// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname transferred from the common noun.
- 2 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Bond County, Illinois.
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hayes Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan.
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Barton County, Missouri.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Noun
- 1 An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
"In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings."
- 2 a citizen of an English borough wordnet
- 3 A town magistrate. historical
- 4 A representative of a borough in the Parliament. UK, historical
- 5 A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies. US, historical
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English burgeis, from Anglo-Norman burgeis, of Proto-Germanic origin; either from Late Latin burgensis (from Latin burgus), or from Frankish *burg, both from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. See also bourgeois, burgish.
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman burgeis (“town-dweller”), from Old French burgeis, a variant of borgeis, a toponym of mixed Germanic and Latin origins.
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