burgh — English Dictionary

Noun

1. a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

2. a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

   Usage

   • UK usage

   Examples

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   1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.

   This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.

Noun

1. a borough in Scotland

   Broader terms

   borough