burg
UK/bɜːɡ/US/bɝɡ/
burg noun: a city or town. Also the clipping of burger.
Noun (1)
burg (plural burgs)
- A city or town.
- Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good.1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012
- Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me.2009 June, David Thriault, “This Way In: The Sound and the Fury”, in Esquire, volume 151, number 6, page 6
- A fortified town in medieval Europe.
Noun (2) capitalized: Burg
Burg (countable and uncountable, plural Burgs)
- Burgundy wine.
- Many 2006 Burgundy reds are drinking well now, the better 2007s, especially Chambolles, have been beautiful for a while, and the 2008s could be left alone for a year or so to resolve their tannins. I find many 2011 and 2012 Burgs seductive, and irresistible, just bursting with fruit.2018, Joel Berman, “Rhône Vintages”, in So You Want to Be a Wine Merchant?, Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 98
Also used as
burg is also the clipping of burger.
Forms of burg
| plural | burgs |
|---|---|
| plural | Burgs |
Origin of burg
The historical sense is from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”). Doublet of borough, Brough, burgh, burh, and bury. Also compare burgess. The modern sense may have been formed in part by analogy with the many North American city names that are suffixed with -burg (a number of which in the Eastern United States once used -burgh instead. See burgh), as well as being formed in part due to German Burg.
Clipping of Burgundy.
Words formed from burg
Words that rhyme with burg
Questions about burg
- What does burg mean?
- Burg means a city or town.
- What part of speech is burg?
- Burg is a noun.
- How do you pronounce burg?
- Burg is pronounced /bɜːɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of burg?
- The plural of burg is burgs.
Words near burg in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: burg (page history and authors); Burg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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