name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the common noun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
burgess
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/ˈbɜːd͡ʒɪs/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːd͡ʒɪs/
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CMU ARPABET: B ER1 JH AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bond County, Illinois.
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hayes Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan.
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Barton County, Missouri.
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina.
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
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noun
Meaning 7
An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
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noun
Meaning 8
A town magistrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 9
A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
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noun
Meaning 10
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
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noun
Meaning 11
A person who pays municipal taxes, a ratepayer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Saskatchewan
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noun
Meaning 12
a citizen of an English borough
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: burgher
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Broader terms: Englishman
noun
Meaning 13
English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Anthony Burgess
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Broader terms: writer, author
History
Etymology
By proprialization from burgess, which is from Anglo-Norman burgeis (“town-dweller”); more at burgess.
From Middle English burgeis, from Anglo-Norman burgeis (“town-dweller”), 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 borough, bourgeois, burgish.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: burgès — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Chinese Mandarin: 市民 (shìmín) — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Dutch: burger — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Dutch: poorter — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Finnish: porvari — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- German: Bürger — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- German: (historical)Bürgerin — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Irish: buirgéiseach — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Italian: cittadino — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Manx: cochorpagh — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Welsh: porthmon — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
- Welsh: bwrdais — inhabitant of a borough with full rights
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