burgh

n. 自治市

发音

UK /ˈbʌɹə/
其它
SCOT /ˈbʌɹə/
US /ˈbʌɹoʊ/
US /bɝɡ/

词形变化

burghs 复数 burghs

别名

bourg

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

  2. 2.

    a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

    英国

    With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

borough

相关短语

burgh of barony burgh of regality Burgh le Marsh Burgh by Sands Burgh Castle Burgh Heath royal burgh police burgh parliamentary burgh de Burgh de Búrca

词源

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.

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