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burgh

/ˈbʌɹə/US/ˈbʌɹoʊ/

burgh noun: a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

Noun

burgh (plural burghs)

  1. (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
  2. (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
    • With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And...1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html
    • This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998

Proper noun capitalized: Burgh

Burgh

  1. A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.

burgh meaning in Urdu

burgh in Urdu

قصبہ, شہر

Forms of burgh

Noun
pluralburghs
Proper noun
alternative formde Burgh
alternative formBurke
alternative formBourke
alternative formBourg
alternative formde Bourg
alternative formBurgo
alternative formde Burgo
alternative formde Búrca

Plural of burgh: burghs

Origin of burgh

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg. Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.

From the Anglo-Norman word burgh.

Words formed from burgh

Phrases with burgh

Words that rhyme with burgh

Questions about burgh

What does burgh mean?
Burgh means a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
What is burgh in Urdu?
Burgh in Urdu is قصبہ, شہر. See Burgh meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is burgh?
Burgh can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce burgh?
Burgh is pronounced /ˈbʌɹə/ (UK).
What is the plural of burgh?
The plural of burgh is burghs.

Words near burgh in the dictionary

  1. burggrafs
  2. burggrave
  3. burggraves
  4. burggravine
  5. burggravines
  6. burgh
  7. Burgh by Sands
  8. Burgh Castle
  9. Burgh Heath
  10. Burgh le Marsh
  11. burgh of barony

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burgh (page history and authors); Burgh (page history and authors); burgh (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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