English Dictionary

burgh

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbʌɹə/

名詞

イギリス英語

(Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names). / (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

日本語の意味

(サセックス地方) 小さな丘、しばしば墳墓（土塚）を指し、主に地名として用いられる。 / (英国) 自治体、または特許により認可された町（現在はスコットランドの公式な地方区分としてのみ使用される）。

A low burgh on the ridge marked the site of several ancient tumuli.

尾根の低い塚は、いくつかの古代の古墳の跡を示していた。

意味（1）

(Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

意味（2）

(UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

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.

burghs （ plural ）