Associations to the word «Burgess»
Noun
- Shale
- Meredith
- Maclean
- Blunt
- Wise
- Bailiff
- Williamsburg
- Melvin
- Macpherson
- Arthropod
- Anthony
- Sulla
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- Alderman
- Jamestown
- Iain
- Gaius
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- Automobile
- Hayward
- Cato
- Dunne
- Sussex
- Illustrated
- Fossil
- Borough
- Derrick
- Chameleon
- Freedman
- Thornton
- Reeve
- Underwood
- Daryl
- Roderick
- Virginia
- Magistrate
- Provost
- Wes
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- Hove
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- Aristocracy
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- Edinburgh
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- Nobility
- Footing
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- Sociologist
- Jeffrey
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- Keyword
- Whitehead
- Gould
- Beverley
- Brighton
- Caesar
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- Tribune
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- Encyclopedia
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- Domesday
Adjective
Wiktionary
BURGESS, noun. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
BURGESS, noun. (historical) A town magistrate.
BURGESS, noun. (historical) (UK) A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
BURGESS, noun. (historical) (US) A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in the colonial America, established by Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.
BURGESS, proper noun. A surname.
BURGESS SHALE, proper noun. A rock formation in the Canadian Rockies that contains very many fossils from the Cambrian period.
Dictionary definition
BURGESS, noun. English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993).
BURGESS, noun. A citizen of an English borough.
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