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Burg

noun
/bɜːɡ/UK/bɝɡ/US

Etymology

The historical sense is from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”). Doublet of borough, Brough, burgh, burh, and bury. Also compare burgess. The modern sense may have been formed in part by analogy with the many North American city names that are suffixed with -burg (a number of which in the Eastern United States once used -burgh instead. See burgh), as well as being formed in part due to German Burg.

  1. derived from *burgz✻
  2. derived from *burg✻
  3. derived from burgus

Definitions

  1. Burgundy wine.

  2. A city or town.

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

  3. A fortified town in medieval Europe.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Clipping of burger.

      • I hate this emptiness and the redundancy of eating burgs at Burger Town.

The neighborhood

Derived

burgish

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Burg. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA