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Definition: BURGAGE |
BURGAGENoun1. A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. |
Date "BURGAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Burgage \Burg"age\, noun. [From Burg: compare to the French expression bourgage, Late Latin expression burgagium.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | If anyone holds of us by fee-farm, either by socage or by burage, or of any other land by knight's service, we will not (by reason of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage), have the wardship of the heir, or of such land of his as if of the fief of that other; nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless such fee-farm owes knight's service. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BURGAGE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "BURGAGE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BURGAGE": burgages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BURGAGE" (pronounced 'Burg"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Encourage, Endamage, Escheatage, Floodage, Floorage, flowage, Foldage, Fraughtage, freightage, Frequentage, frontage, fruitage, Frutage. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-u" | |
-1 letter: bagger, beggar, bugger, gauger. | |
-2 letters: agger, argue, auger, barge, eggar, gager, gauge, gurge, rugae. | |
-3 letters: ager, ague, bare, bear, beau, berg, brae, brag, bura, burg, gage, garb, gaur, gear, grab, grub, grue, guar, rage, rube, ruga, urea, urge. | |
-4 letters: age, arb, are, bag, bar, beg, bra, bug, bur, ear, eau, egg, era, erg, gab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burgages. | |
+3 letters: budgerigar, gangbuster, outbragged. | |
+4 letters: budgerigars, bullyragged, gangbusters, staggerbush. | |
+5 letters: beglamouring, beleaguering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 52 47 41 47 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- .-. --. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01010010 01000111 01000001 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U R G A G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0052 0047 0041 0047 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36555241354139 |
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