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Burgh

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risenounThe process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
boroughnounA town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
burrowstownnoun(Scotland, obsolete) A town that is a burgh.
burynounA borough; a manor
bostalnoun(Sussex) Eye dialect spelling of borstal. [(UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.]
brooknoun(Northeastern US) A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
burgnounBurgundy wine.
bedfordshirenounA midland county of England, county town Bedford, bounded by Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
burbagenounA surname.
barnhillnoun(uncountable) A placename:
battlenoun(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
burstonnoun(uncountable) A placename:
buckinghamnounThe Buckingham Palace.
boronoun(chiefly soccer and Teesside) The town of Middlesbrough, and more specifically Middlesbrough FC football club.
burtonnounAn English habitational surname from Old English for someone who lived in any of several places with that name.
brumnoun(British, informal) Nickname for Birmingham: a major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
deannounA senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
shirenoun(British) (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
berghnoun(UK dialectal) A hill.
townsendnounA placename:

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