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Alderman vs Burgess - What's the difference?

alderman | burgess |

As nouns the difference between alderman and burgess

is that alderman is a member of several municipal legislative bodies in a city or town while burgess is an inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.

As proper nouns the difference between alderman and burgess

is that alderman is {{surname|lang=en} while Burgess is {{surname|from=common nouns}.

alderman

English

Noun

(aldermen)
  • A member of several municipal legislative bodies in a city or town.
  • A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.
  • *1859 ,
  • *:Half-a-crown'' is known as an (alderman), (half a bull), (half a tusheroon), and a (madza caroon); whilst a ''crown'' piece, or ''five shillings , may be called either a (bull), or a (caroon), or a (cartwheel), or a (coachwheel), or a (thick-un), or a (tusheroon).
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    • Synonyms

    * baillie (Scotland )

    See also

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    burgess

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
  • *
  • *:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
  • (lb) A town magistrate.
  • A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
  • A member of the (House of Burgesses), a legislative body in the colonial America, established by (Virginia Company) to provide civil rule in the colonies.