burg
Americannoun
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Informal. a city or town.
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History/Historical. a fortified town.
noun
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history a fortified town
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informal a town or city
Etymology
Origin of burg
First recorded in 1745–55; variant of burgh
Example Sentences
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Hometown names stepped up to defend the burg by posting photos of clean streets, manicured parks and humming community events.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
The town is Maplewood, a quaint commuter burg which is home to a number of New York Times employees and, probably not coincidentally, is the subject of frequent coverage in the New York Times.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2023
The former timber and mining burg of Index, roughly 60 miles northeast of Seattle, once welcomed such pass-through traffic along its few unpretentious blocks via a 10-mile winding road from Gold Bar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
The success of "Mare of Easttown" makes the declining factory burg the new favored destination for meaty, complex storytelling.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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