Burgomaster
[bә:gә,mɑ:stә]
Definition
(noun.) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria.
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Definition
(n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
(n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.
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Examples
- Boyle, Otto Guericke, a burgomaster of Magdeburg, celebrated as the inventor of the airpump, Dr. Wall, and Sir Isaac Newton, added some facts. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Otto von Guericke, a burgomaster of Magdeburg, who had traveled in France and Italy, succeeded in constru cting an air-pump by means of which air might be exhausted from a vessel. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He became a natural philosopher, and for thirty-five years was burgomaster of his native town. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The bank is under the direction of the four reigning burgomasters who are changed every year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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