Definitions for bursar

bursar bur·sar

Spelling: [bur-ser, -sahr]
IPA: /ˈbɜr sər, -sɑr/

Bursar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in bursar (abrrsu).

Definitions for bursar

noun

  1. a treasurer or business officer, especially of a college or university.
  2. (in the Middle Ages) a university student.
  3. Chiefly Scot. a student attending a university on a scholarship.

Origin of bursar

1400-50; Medieval Latin bursārius a purse-keeper, treasurer (see bursa, -ar2); replacing late Middle English bouser, variant of bou

Examples for bursar

While bursar of Magdalen College he built the college chapel tower.

“The bursar and I shall have plenty of time for an explanation—later,” said Pluto.

Since you are bursar for the lunch, said the secretary, I will buy the ferry tickets, and he did so.

The bursar thought that Mr. Ravenshoe's plea of sobriety should be taken in extenuation.

Not seeing him anywhere, he found the bursar and inquired for Dr. Claudius.

I do not know how far you are in the right about guessing at a bursar: Tim.

Into the archway leading to the bursar's room and to East Dormitory, or through the opening to the quad?

No bursar of a college or housekeeper of a school can fail to read it with a sympathetic smile.

"The bursar of Trinity shall be a proverb for a good fellow that loveth his lush," hiccoughed out Fegan.

Suppose he went to the bursar, obtained an exeat, fled straight to London!

Word Value for bursar
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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