- 1（蘇格蘭）自治鎮、自治市
In Scotland, a burgh is a town that had its own local government — what English people usually call a borough. Many Scottish towns were royal burghs: the king had given them the right to hold markets and run their own affairs. You still meet the word in Scottish law and on signs, and it sits inside place names such as Edinburgh. Though actually, when people say those names they often swallow the -burgh, so it sounds more like “burruh” than “berg”. Do not read it like German Burg, a castle. It is the Scottish sister of English borough: same old idea of a fortified town, different later spelling. Outside Scotland, as a common noun, it is uncommon; mostly need it for Scottish places and history.
組成From Middle English burgh, from Old English burh, an old Germanic word for a city or stronghold. It is a doublet of borough: two later forms of the same older word. The Scottish use kept this spelling.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Burghname/ˈbʌɹə/
- 1
A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
burghnoun/ˈbʌɹə/
- 1
a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
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a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.
- This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.
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