burgemeester

• burgermeester (superseded)

From Middle Dutch borchmeester, borgermeester. This form represents a compound of burg (“burgh, town”) +‎ meester (“master”), but forms with -r- are influenced by burger (“citizen”). The earliest attestations lack the -r-.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbʏr.ɣəˈmeːs.tər/

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• Hyphenation: bur‧ge‧mees‧ter
• Rhymes: -eːstər

burgemeester m (plural burgemeesters, feminine burgemeesteres)

1. mayor, burgomaster (head of a city or municipality)
2. one of two species of gull:
   1. synonym of kleine burgemeester (“Larus glaucoides”)
   2. synonym of grote burgemeester (“Larus hyperboreus”)
3. (obsolete, historical) Roman consul [17th–19th c.]

• Afrikaans: burgemeester
• → English: burgomaster
• → French: bourgmestre