Associations to the word «Burgess»

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.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King