Crossword-Solution: BURGESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Burgess | n. | An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. |
| Burgess | n. | One who represents a borough in Parliament. |
| Burgess | n. | A magistrate of a borough. |
| Burgess | n. | An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “BURGESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| English novelist (1917 93) | 1 answer |
| British novelist Anthony | 1 answer |
| Borough resident. | 1 answer |
| Anthony ___, author | 1 answer |
| Actor Meredith. | 1 answer |
| "The Purple Cow" poet Gelett | 1 answer |
| "1985" novelist | 1 answer |
| Colonial legislator | 1 answer |
| English writer of satirical novels | 1 answer |
| Humorist Gelett ___ | 1 answer |
| Inhabitant of a borough. | 1 answer |
| Mr. Meredith. | 1 answer |
| TOWN parliament member | 1 answer |
| Citizen of a town | 2 answers |
| CORPORATE town member | 2 answers |
| INHABITANT of borough | 2 answers |
| INHABITANT with full municipal rights | 2 answers |
| A citizen of town or borough | 2 answers |
| freeman | 8 answers |
| A CITIZEN OF AN ENGLISH BOROUGH | 11 answers |
| villager | 13 answers |
| Citizen | 26 answers |
| magistrate | 28 answers |
| English novelist | 31 answers |
| denizen | 31 answers |
| ANTHONY | 37 answers |
| Commoner | 39 answers |
| indweller | 51 answers |
| Magistracy | 53 answers |
| Dweller | 57 answers |
| Native | 72 answers |
| Subject | 72 answers |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
| Pass on | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BURGESS (5)
Burgess had always been buoyant, hopeful, happy; Adams has always been cheerless, hopeless, despondent.
The naked Saxon serf was drowning the sense of his half-year’s hunger and thirst, in one day of gluttony and drunkenness—the more pampered burgess and guild-brother was eating his morsel with gust, or curiously criticising the quantity of the malt and the skill of the brewer.
Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess ½the true religion professed within the realm¸), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
She refreshed the eyes of a respectable burgess of sixty, a person so colourless that no one, after passing him, could have remembered anything about him except that he wore glasses and some sort of moustache; and to Cora's vision he was as near transparent as any man could be, yet she did not miss the almost imperceptible signs of his approval, as they met and continued on their opposite ways.
STYLE.--Let no one say that 'reading and writing comes by nature,' unless he is prepared to be classed with the foolish burgess who said it first.
Quotes with BURGESS (3)
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)
On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind." I've always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they're shared experiences, but books aren't like that. The relationship between a writer and a reader is utterly unique to those two i…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).