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BURGH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burgh mean?
• BURGH (noun)
The noun BURGH has 1 sense:
1. a borough in Scotland
Familiarity information: BURGH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A borough in Scotland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("burgh" is a kind of...):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
Context examples
A picturesque track it was, by the way; lying along the side of the beck and through the sweetest curves of the dale: but that day I thought more of the letters, that might or might not be awaiting me at the little burgh whither I was bound, than of the charms of lea and water.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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