burg
Informal. a city or town.
History/Historical. a fortified town.
Origin of burg
1Words Nearby burg
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How to use burg in a sentence
This tiny burg teems with so many old stone and wood-framed buildings that the whole town is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The number that jumped out was the huge revenue, big bucks for a little burg.
Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household | Michael Daly | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe dinner with burg was not cancelled and burg was a welcome guest at the Hillel.
The incident in question involves Avraham burg, who was an MK before leaving political office a decade ago.
And burg is an Orthodox Jew from a distinguished Israeli political family.
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The headline of a burg Haartez op-ed last month asked the crucial question: "Oslo is dead, what's next?"
No shooting and they would be miles away before they stopped rubbing their eyes in that one water-tank burg.
The circumstance which made it a burg made it likewise a battle-field.
We must carry off both the bishopess and the countess—we must pillage both burg and villa!
The Poniard's Hilt | Eugne SueIn fetching her from the burg, the brutal leude had barely given her time to dress before lifting her on the crupper of his horse.
The Poniard's Hilt | Eugne SueThey took our herd and said to us: 'We shall carry you to the burg of our count to restock his domain with slaves and cattle.'
The Poniard's Hilt | Eugne Sue
British Dictionary definitions for burg
/ (bɜːɡ) /
history a fortified town
US informal a town or city
Origin of burg
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