- Brit. a borough
- in Scotland, an incorporated or chartered town
Origin of burgh
ME: Scottish variant, variety of boroughburgh
burgh-burgh
-burg
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burgh
noun
A chartered town or borough in Scotland.
Origin of burgh
Scotsvariant of boroughTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural burghs)
Origin
From Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”). Cognate with Dutch burg, German Burg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; fort, battlement”).
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