Word.ws English Dictionary

police burgh

police burgh noun: a burgh of a kind that existed from 1833 to 1975, constituted by the sheriff for purposes of improvement and police, the local authority being the police commissioners.

Noun

police burgh (plural police burghs)

  1. (Scotland, historical) A burgh of a kind that existed from 1833 to 1975, constituted by the sheriff for purposes of improvement and police, the local authority being the police commissioners.

police burgh meaning in Tamil

police burgh in Tamil

எல்லைக் காவல்பிரிவு

Forms of police burgh

pluralpolice burghs

Questions about police burgh

What does police burgh mean?
Police burgh means a burgh of a kind that existed from 1833 to 1975, constituted by the sheriff for purposes of improvement and police, the local authority being the police commissioners.
What is police burgh in Tamil?
Police burgh in Tamil is எல்லைக் காவல்பிரிவு. See Police burgh meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is police burgh?
Police burgh is a noun.
What is the plural of police burgh?
The plural of police burgh is police burghs.

Words near police burgh in the dictionary

  1. police box
  2. police boxes
  3. police boy
  4. police boys
  5. police brutality
  6. police burgh
  7. police burghs
  8. police captain
  9. police captains
  10. police car
  11. police cars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: police burgh (page history and authors); police burgh (Tamil 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “police burgh.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/police_burgh. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.