burgh.

A town with a particular chartered or municipal status in Scottish historical usage.

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Words that belong together

• a royal burgh
• a Scottish burgh

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The royal burgh’s charter survived in a chest beside the council records.

She traced the burgh boundary through streets whose names had changed twice.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular burgh; plural burghs. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.