English Explanatory Dictionary

-burgh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Place name suffix, indicating the site of a fortified place.

Word forms

-burgh

Etymology

From Old English burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of -borough and -bury.

Synonyms

-burg -borough -boro -bury
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