Definitions for burgages

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burgages bur·gage

Spelling: [bur-gij]

IPA: /ˈbɜr gɪdʒ/

Burgages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in burgages (abeggrsu).

Definitions for burgages

noun

1. (in England) a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent.
2. (in Scotland) tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return for the service of watching and warding.

Origin of burgages

1250-1300; Middle English borgage Anglo-French borgage, burgage or Anglo-Latin burgāgium; see burgh, -age

Examples for burgages

For me, it bred the question of what nature and nurture can really do to someone.

Nature and nurture, genetics and family background all come into play.

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Oddly you nurture it, it is part of you, and inescapably part of your past, present, and future.

Nature and nurture, genetics and family background all come into play.

For me, it bred the question of what nature and nurture can really do to someone.

Oddly you nurture it, it is part of you, and inescapably part of your past, present, and future.

Will asking for a barrel-aged Negroni help to nurture some European class?

The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.

Will asking for a barrel-aged Negroni help to nurture some European class?