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burses

burses is the plural of burse.

Meaning of burse

Noun

burse (plural burses)

  1. (historical) A purse.
    • Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90
  2. A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.
  3. An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.
  4. (obsolete) A stock exchange; a bourse.
  5. (obsolete) A kind of bazaar.

See all 6 meanings of burse

Proper noun capitalized: Burses

Burses

  1. (plural) plural of Burse

Questions about burses

What is burses the plural of?
Burses is the plural of burse.
What part of speech is burses?
Burses is a proper noun.

Words near burses in the dictionary

  1. burseed
  2. burseeds
  3. bursera
  4. burseraceous
  5. burseras
  6. burses
  7. Bursey
  8. Burseys
  9. Burshtyn
  10. bursicle
  11. bursicles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burses (page history and authors); Burses (page history and authors); burse (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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