burgess

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɜːd͡ʒɪs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
    — In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
  2. A town magistrate. historical
  3. A representative of a borough in the Parliament. UK,historical
  4. 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. US,historical

词形变化

burgesses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
burgessdom burgess-ship comburgess nonburgess
相关词
bourgeois burgessy burgher right of burgess

词源

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 borough, bourgeois, burgish.
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