burg

See also Burg

English

Noun

burg (plural burgs)

1. (North America) A city or town.

   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert^[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:

     Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good.

   • 2009 June, David Thriault, “This Way In: The Sound and the Fury”, Esquire, volume 151, number 6, page 6: 

     Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me.

   • 2010 Feb, Paige Orloff, “Big Style on a (Little) Budget”, Country Living, volume 33, number 2, page 84: 

     It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.

2. (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.

Related terms

• burgher
• burghermaster
• burgomaster
• burgrave

Anagrams

• grub

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Albanian

Noun

burg m

1. jail, prison. (brig)

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Old English

Alternative forms

• burh

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰərgʰ- (“fortified elevation”), *bʰerǵʰ-.

Noun

burg f

1. city, town

   Sceal seó burg bÍdan — the city shall remain

2. stronghold, fort, castle
3. dwelling-place

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰərgʰ- (“fortified elevation”), *bʰerǵʰ-. Cognate with Old Saxon burg, Frankish *burg, Old English burh, Old Norse borg, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 (baurgs). Also related to Old High German berg and more distantly to Latin fortis.

Noun

burg

1. a castle
2. a city

Descendants

• German: Burg