burgess.
An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
Meaning & usage
An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
A town magistrate.
A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
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.
A person who pays municipal taxes, a ratepayer.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English burgeis, from Anglo-Norman burgeis (“town-dweller”), 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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