Burgess
['bɜːdʒɪs] or ['bɝdʒɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a citizen of an English borough.
(noun.) English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993).
Editor: Mervin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
(n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
(n.) A magistrate of a borough.
(n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
Checker: Wendy
Examples
- General Humphreys drove the enemy from his front into his main line on the Hatcher, near Burgess's Mills. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In 1871 Maddox published his first notice of gelatine emulsion, and in 1873 the gelatine emulsions of Burgess were advertised for sale. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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