burgess
IPA: bˈɝdʒʌs
noun
- An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
- (historical) A town magistrate.
- (historical, UK) A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
- (historical, US) A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.
- A surname transferred from the common noun.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A township in Bond County, Illinois.
- A village in Barton County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
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Examples of "burgess" in Sentences
- The burgess was the captain.
- Burgess is brutish, very loud, and overbearing.
- It is the most common fossil in the Burgess Shale.
- Burgess adapted the material for the screen himself.
- He was elected Burgess of the Borough of Gettysburg.
- Burgess is the highest rank of the Legislative Branch.
- Burgess gave three explanations for the origins of the title.
- Burgess was shot in the head and Howard in the arm and chest.
- Burgess was chair of the Brandon school board in the late 1960s.
- The interviewer quizzed Burgess on the matter of a deceptive God.