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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal A city or town: "There are no more opportunities for you in this burg” ( Damon Runyon).
  2. n. A fortified or walled town in early or medieval Europe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fortified town; a borough (which see).
  2. n. Same as brough.

Wiktionary

  1. n. North America A city or town.
  2. n. historical A fortified town in medieval Europe.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A fortified town.
  2. n. engraving A borough.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. colloquial American term for a town

Etymologies

  1. Probably from -burg in place names such as HARRISBURG, from Middle English burgh, town, from Old English burg. Sense 2, ultimately from Germanic *burgs, hill fort; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The burg is faking alien visitation to get more tourists, with a museum and UFO-themed snacks, and among their exhibits is a purported alien body.”

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  • “But to me the most arresting part of Jo'burg is the huge piles of slag which surround and ring the city.”

    By Jet to Jo'burg

  • “Jo'burg is filled with corner lots and narrow streets, consequently the city is congested.”

    By Jet to Jo'burg

  • “Right up until you realise that Jo’burg is a summer rainfall area and it is now winter.”

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  • “The earth is fashioned round without, and there beyond, round about it lies the deep sea; and on that sea-strand the gods gave land for an abode to the giant kind, but within on the earth made they a burg round the world against restless giants, and for this burg reared they the brows of Ymir, and called the burg Midgard.”

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  • “Lucky Kunene is a carjacker-turned-property-racketeer who exploits poor black tenants in Jo'burg's shabby housing blocks, scheming rent-strikes and squat-takeovers against nervy white landlords.”

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  • “And like you said about Heidelberg, F'burg's got a ton of students but the youth/artsy vibe is missing, or at least well hidden.”

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  • “On the 40th anniversary, Ed Bradley, who was a football player for Cheyney State, which played against other state colleges, powerhouses like Kutztown or any school ending with the last four letters "burg".”

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006

  • “And Jo'burg's landscape is strewn with the waste of one hundred years of resource extraction; in the service of which South Africa's racial hierarchy was constructed with violent determination.”

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  • “From what he'd seen of the town on his way in, the "burg" portion of the name certainly fit.”

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  1. borough

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  1. town

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Berg
  1. Bergh
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. burh
  1. burggrave
  1. burg
  1. grave

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