Definitions for burgesses

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burgesses bur·gess

Spelling: [bur-jis]

IPA: /ˈbɜr dʒɪs/

Burgesses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in burgesses (beegrsssu).

Definitions for burgesses

noun

1. American History. a representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland.
2. (formerly) a representative of a borough in the British Parliament.
3. Rare. an inhabitant of an English borough.
4. Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
5. (Frank) Gelett [juh-let] /dʒəˈlɛt/ (Show IPA), 1866–1951, U.S. illustrator and humorist.
6. Thornton Waldo, 1874–1965, U.S. author, especially of children's books.
7. a male given name.

Origin of burgesses

1175-1225; Middle English burgeis Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to burg city (Germanic) + -eis Latin -ēnsis -ensis; cf. Examples for burgesses

The burgesses drilled and exercised in the presence of the governor.

The house of burgesses appointed him a member of the committee of correspondence.

As to the back-country settlements, the House of burgesses should have provided for them.

But Governor and Council and the majority of the burgesses will have none of that.

When he ran for the House of burgesses in 1755, the father of our nation got a measly 40 votes.

The within resolutions passed the House of burgesses in May, 1765.

If he had been one of the burgesses his name would have appeared with the others.

Whereupon it was resolved by the Assembly that his burgesses should have no admittance.

We had only to ask what burgesses were, and whether they grew on trees.

If William seize London, that treasury is his, with all the wealth of our burgesses.