Definitions for burgh

burgh burgh

Spelling: [burg; Scot. buhr-oh, buhr
IPA: /bɜrg; Scot. ˈbʌr oʊ, ˈbʌr ə/

Burgh is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in burgh (bghru).

Definitions for burgh

noun

  1. (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
  2. Archaic. borough.

Origin of burgh

1350-1400; late Middle English (Scots); see borough; cf. broch

Examples for burgh

Both the county and burgh electorates were entirely transformed.

"There's eneugh," a burgh policeman said when the money was counted.

Mrs. burgh lent her the necessary sum of money for the journey.

The burgh settled to its Lowlandishness with something of a grudge.

He gave to each shire and burgh long thought and minute commands.

Canterbury is the burgh, borough, or fortified place of the men of Kent.

Baron-bailie, a kind of magistrate, the baron's deputy in a burgh of barony.

About the burgh court, for all its stately setting, there was little formality.

Was not our city named after this Northumbrian Bretwalda, "Edwin's-burgh?"

She had no desire to have the burgh police coming about and interfering with her business.

Word Value for burgh
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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