"burgess" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɜːd͡ʒɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-burgess.ogg [US] Forms: burgesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English burgeis, from Anglo-Norman burgeis, of Proto-Germanic origin; either from Late Latin burgensis (from Latin burgus), or from Frankish *burg, both from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. See also bourgeois, burgish. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰerǵʰ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|burgeis}} Middle English burgeis, {{pedia|Burgess (title)#Etymology}} Burgess (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia, {{der|en|xno|burgeis}} Anglo-Norman burgeis, {{der|en|gem-pro|-}} Proto-Germanic, {{der|en|LL.|burgensis}} Late Latin burgensis, {{der|en|la|burgus}} Latin burgus, {{der|en|frk|*burg}} Frankish *burg, {{der|en|gem-pro|*burgz||stronghold, city}} Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰerǵʰ-}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-, {{m|en|bourgeois}} bourgeois, {{m|en|burgish}} burgish Head templates: {{en-noun}} burgess (plural burgesses)
  1. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen. Categories (topical): People Translations (inhabitant of a borough with full rights): burgès [masculine] (Catalan), 市民 (shìmín) (Chinese Mandarin), burger [masculine] (Dutch), poorter [historical, masculine] (Dutch), porvari (Finnish), Bürger [historical, masculine] (German), (historical)Bürgerin [feminine] (German), buirgéiseach [masculine] (Irish), cittadino [masculine] (Italian), cochorpagh [masculine] (Manx), porthmon [masculine] (Welsh), bwrdais [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-burgess-en-noun--zMuASzH Disambiguation of People: 16 28 29 28 Disambiguation of 'inhabitant of a borough with full rights': 80 1 14 4
  2. (historical) A town magistrate. Tags: historical Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-burgess-en-noun-y1Ti06cf Disambiguation of People: 16 28 29 28
  3. (historical, UK) A representative of a borough in the Parliament. Tags: UK, historical Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-burgess-en-noun-5cwnXPEX Disambiguation of People: 16 28 29 28 Categories (other): British English
  4. (historical, US) A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies. Tags: US, historical Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-burgess-en-noun-t5tXsJMa Disambiguation of People: 16 28 29 28 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 20 77 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 3 23 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: burgess-ship Related terms: bourgeois, burgessy, burgher, right of burgess

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.