Definitions for burghs

burghs burgh

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

Burghs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in burghs (bghrsu).

Definitions for burghs

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 burghs

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

Examples for burghs

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

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

Both the county and burgh electorates were entirely transformed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for burghs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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