• Burg

    Full definition of burg

    Noun

    burg

    (plural burgs)
    1. (North America) A city or town.
      • 1921 , Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Efficiency Expert Chapter , 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.
      • 2009, , , This Way In: The Sound and the Fury, 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.
      • 2010, , , Big Style on a (Little) Budget, It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.
    2. (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.

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