Definitions for bourgs

bourgs bourg

Spelling: [boo rg; French boor]
IPA: /bʊərg; French bur/

Bourgs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in bourgs (bgorsu).

Definitions for bourgs

noun

  1. a town.
  2. a French market town.
  3. a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.

Origin of bourgs

1400-50; late Middle English Anglo-French ≪ Late Latin burgus Germanic; see borough

Examples for bourgs

That you will first go to bourg and ask your sister from which side the refusal came.

It was bourg, and one of the spires belonged to the church of Brou.

In fact the rider had not skirted bourg, but had boldly entered the town.

In 1070 it was surrounded with walls and became a "bourg" (borough).

You look very much sprucer than you did the last time you were at bourg.

I slept at Lyons, and on the morrow by ten in the morning I was at bourg.

He had spent but one night at Lyons because he was in a hurry to reach bourg.

The day before the bourg was taken Bertulph managed to effect his escape.

The rustic cackle of his bourg drowns the murmur of the world.

The scite of the castle is still visible near the bourg of Montfort.

Word Value for bourgs
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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