Burgh

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  • noun. A chartered town or borough in Scotland.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See borough.
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  • noun. a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
  • noun. a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bbq  borough  occassion  pleasure-ground  rath  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tow  
    variant
    borough  
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