comburgess

noun

com·​burgess

(ˈ)käm+

plural -es

1

: a fellow burgess

2

: a onetime magistrate elected in certain English boroughs and associated with the alderman

Word History

Etymology

com- + burgess; translation of Medieval Latin comburgensis

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