A burgess was the holder of a certain status in an English, Irish or Scottish borough in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, designating someone of the burgher class.

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Every once in a while, people would put up more ribbons, and the board would take them down — with one burgess once captured in the act in a video posted on YouTube.

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Dec 11, 2025 · burgess (plural burgesses) An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen. quotations

BURGESS definition: a representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland. See examples of burgess used in a sentence.

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A free, male inhabitant of a medieval English borough was known as a burgess. A burgess was originally a fairly ordinary citizen, and the word shares a root with the French bourgeois, …

burgess (n.) c. 1200, burgeis "citizen of a borough, inhabitant of a walled town," from Old French borjois (Modern French bourgeois), from Late Latin burgensis (see bourgeois).

(Biography) Anthony, real name John Burgess Wilson. 1917–93, English novelist and critic: his novels include A Clockwork Orange (1962), Tremor of Intent (1966), Earthly Powers (1980), …