burgomaster
Americannoun
noun
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the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
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a popular name for the glaucous gull
Other Word Forms
- burgomastership noun
Etymology
Origin of burgomaster
1585–95; < Dutch burgemeester, equivalent to burg borough + meester master, cognate with German Bürgermeister major
Example Sentences
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The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1914 Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stereotype of the small-city mayor is a Babbittish burgomaster who divides his time between Rotary luncheons and Boy Scout wiener roasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father was one of the leading citizens of Holland, both in politics and in the patronage of letters, and for some time burgomaster of Amsterdam.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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