Hypertext Webster Gateway: "burgomaster"
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["u]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["o]l.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull ({Larus
glaucus}), common in arctic regions.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
burgomaster
n : a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders
or Austria
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