What is the name meaning of BURGE. Phrases containing BURGE
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English (Northamptonshire)
English (Northamptonshire) : Anglo-Norman French patronymic (see Fitzgerald) from the personal name Hugh.William Fitzhugh (1651–1701), from Bedford, England, emigrated to VA about 1670 and established himself on the Potomac River in what was then Stafford Co., VA, as a planter and exporter. He also practiced law, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and served in 1687 as lieutenant colonel of the county militia.
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English (chiefly Somerset and Dorset)
English (chiefly Somerset and Dorset) : variant of Bridge, Old English brycg, with metathesis of u and r, as exemplified in several place names of this origin in various parts of southern England.German (Bürge) : from Middle High German bürge ‘bailsman’, ‘guarantor’.In some cases maybe an altered spelling of Swiss Bürgi (see Burgi).
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Lives in town.
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English
English : patronymic from Jeffrey.The third U.S. president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and VA statesman Thomas Jefferson relates in his memoirs a family tradition that he was descended from Welsh stock on his father’s side, while noting the relative infrequency of the name Jefferson in Wales. It is a characteristically northern English name. A Jefferson was among the burgesses who attended the first representative assembly at Jamestown, VA, in 1619.
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English
English : status name, from Middle English burghman, borughman (Old English burhmann) ‘inhabitant of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one holding land or buildings by burgage (see Burgess).Americanized spelling of German Buhrmann (see Buhrman).
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English
English : of uncertain origin, possibly a habitational name, of which the second element appears to be Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘creek’. The first element may be a short form of an Old English personal name containing the element Ås ‘god’ (see for example Oswald) or its Old Norse cognate ás (see Osborne). However, the earliest known bearer of the name was Roger Wyswall, who was admitted as a burgess of Shrewsbury in 1450. The English name is found in various forms, including Woosall and Wossald.Irish (Ulster) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’ (see Hussey).
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Citizen
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American, British, Celtic, Christian, English, German, Indian, Jamaican
Town Dweller; Town Citizen; Citizen of a Town
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English and Dutch
English and Dutch : variant spelling of Burger.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a castle or city gate, Middle English burgate, or a habitational name from a place named Burgate, from Old English burh-geat with the same meaning, examples of which are found in Hampshire, Suffolk, and Surrey.
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English Celtic
Lives in town.
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English
English : variant spelling of Burgin.
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English
English : variant spelling of Burgess.
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English
English : southwestern dialect variant of Bridge, from a metathesized form of Old English brycg. Compare Burge.
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English
English : variant of Burger.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : status name from Middle English burge(i)s, Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one with municipal rights and duties. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger.Thomas Burgess came from England to MA in about 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
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American, British, English
Town Dweller; Lives in Town
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Citizen of a Town
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North German
North German : occupational name for a peddler (see Haack 1).North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge (see Heck 2).North German : perhaps also a topographic name from hach, hack ‘dirty, boggy water’.Frisian, Dutch, and North German : from a Frisian personal name, Hake.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from Yiddish hak ‘axe’.English : variant of Hake 1.George Hack (c. 1623–c. 1665) was born in Cologne, Germany, of a Schleswig-Holstein family, and emigrated to New Amsterdam where he practiced medicine and entered the VA tobacco trade. Colony records show that he and his wife, Anna, were formally made naturalized citizens of VA in 1658. He had two daughters, neither of whom married, and two sons: George Nicholas Hack, the founder of the Norfolk branch of the family; and Peter, for many years a member of the VA House of Burgesses, the founder of the Maryland branch. Hack’s descendants eventually changed the spelling of the name to Heck.
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English
English : status name from Middle English burghman, borughman (Old English burhmann) ‘inhabitant of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one holding land or buildings by burgage (see Burgess).
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An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
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A magistrate of a borough.
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See 1st Bourgeois.
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The state of privilege of a burgess.
v. t.
To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.
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One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.
v. i.
To bud. See Bourgeon.
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A kind of small coat.
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A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
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An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.
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A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.
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One who represents a borough in Parliament.
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A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
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An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.