burgomaster : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: burgomaster	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for burgomaster
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
burgomaster n a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burgomaster \Bur"go*mas`ter\, n. [D. burgemeester; burg borough + meester master; akin to G. burgemeister, b[81]rgermeister. See 1st {Borough}, and {Master}.] 1. A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster. 2. (Zo[94]l.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull ({Larus glaucus}), common in arctic regions.