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How to pronounce burgess in English?

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Synonyms anthony burgess
Type Words
Synonyms burgher
Type of englishman

Examples of burgess

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Burgess said he plans to run the fire department much like the way it's run now.
From the thenewstribune.com
Burgess helps to procure new equipment and trains fellow firefighters to use it.
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Burgess was charged because he, too, knew what was going to happen, Brewer said.
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Burgess Road, just over the border in New York is a great, quiet spot to paint.
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Burgess, a member of the North Hills West Neighborhood Council, smelled a scam.
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Burgess cited the overfishing of sharks as a factor in the wane of shark attacks.
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Burgess was made Quartermaster but lost it soon after when Captain Halsey died.
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Burgess kept working through his final illness and was writing on his deathbed.
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Burgess estimates that the attacking sharks were large, ranging from 8 to 10 feet.
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  • English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)
  • A citizen of an English borough
  • The One Piece manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Eiichiro Oda. ...
  • Burgess is a surname, occasionally used as a given name.
  • Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough (England) or burgh (Scotland). It later came to mean an elected or un-elected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.
  • An inhabitant of a borough with full rights, a citizen; A town magistrate
  • A town magistrate or government official.
  • Burgus Townspeople. The Domesday Book lists numbers of burgesses in some settlements but not others. What constituted a burgess is unclear, as it is thought some of those 'townspeople' may have been rural labourers resident close to towns.
  • Represented a borough at official levels BURELER - made borel, a woollen cloth with a coarse feel