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murenger

UK/ˈmjʊəɹɨnd͡ʒə/US/ˈmjʊɹənd͡ʒəɹ/

murenger noun: an officer in charge of the town walls, or their repairs.

Noun

murenger (plural murengers)

  1. An officer in charge of the town walls, or their repairs.
    • The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape?1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, page 5

Forms of murenger

pluralmurengers
alternative formmuringer

Origin of murenger

From Middle English murager, from Old French muragier (“an officer in charge of town walls, receiving toll for repairs”), from murage (“tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls”), from Latin murus (“a wall”) + -aticum.

Questions about murenger

What does murenger mean?
Murenger means an officer in charge of the town walls, or their repairs.
What part of speech is murenger?
Murenger is a noun.
How do you pronounce murenger?
Murenger is pronounced /ˈmjʊəɹɨnd͡ʒə/ (UK).
What is the plural of murenger?
The plural of murenger is murengers.

Words near murenger in the dictionary

  1. mureidomycins
  2. murein
  3. mureins
  4. murenda
  5. murendas
  6. murenger
  7. murengers
  8. mures
  9. Muresan
  10. Muresans
  11. Muret

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