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burghs

burghs is the plural of burgh.

Meaning of burgh

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

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Phrases with burghs

Questions about burghs

What is burghs the plural of?
Burghs is the plural of burgh.

Words near burghs in the dictionary

  1. Burghill
  2. burghmaster
  3. burghmasters
  4. burghmote
  5. burghmotes
  6. burghs
  7. burghs of barony
  8. burghs of regality
  9. burghul
  10. Burgin
  11. burginot

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