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Noun
/ˈbərjis/,
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burgesses, plural;
  1. A person with municipal authority or privileges, in particular

  2. An inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship

  3. A member of Parliament for a borough, corporate town, or university

  4. (in the US and also historically in the UK) A magistrate or member of the governing body of a town

  5. A member of the assembly of colonial Maryland or Virginia

  1. English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)
  2. a citizen of an English borough
  3. The One Piece manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Eiichiro Oda. ...
  4. Burgess is a surname, occasionally used as a given name.
  5. Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough (England) or burgh (Scotland). It later came to mean an elected or un-elected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.
  6. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights, a citizen; A town magistrate
  7. a town magistrate or government official.
  8. burgus Townspeople. The Domesday Book lists numbers of burgesses in some settlements but not others. What constituted a burgess is unclear, as it is thought some of those 'townspeople' may have been rural labourers resident close to towns.
  9. represented a borough at official levels BURELER - made borel, a woollen cloth with a coarse feel
  10. Holder of a tenement, land or house, in a borough, an office carrying special judicial privileges and obligations to the borough. Burgesses grew in power during the 14th and 15th centuries, gradually building wealth based upon the commerce and production that took place in the borough.
  11. The holder of land or a house within a borough.
  12. A person who holds land within a borough. The term generally implies citizenship and thus a variety of rights within the town as well.
  13. An inhabitant of a borough possessing full municipal rights. By extension those elected to represent the boroughs, corporate towns and universities in parliament, as opposed to the knights who represented the counties.
  14. man listed as merchant or craftsman in a town burgh
  15. is the highest rank of the Legislative Branch. Burgesses must have held four terms of Demagogue and require 200 votes. They have the same power as Demagogues, but are often granted responsibility and in-game power by the town's laws.