BURGESS

Burgess

Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh . It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.

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burgess

Noun

  1. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
  2. A town magistrate.
  3. A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
  4. A member of the , a legislative body in the colonial America, established by to provide civil rule in the colonies.


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