as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area
moved from a small town into a much bigger burg
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Recent Examples of burg
Funny to see that little burg hit the national news.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Apr. 2025
Spink believed relocation of some of baseball’s lesser-drawing teams was possible, and there was a vast nation of growing burgs with their arms (and wallets) open.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
Two teeny Texas burgs made the list for their preservation of western culture.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
Most big burgs saw sizable year-over-year jumps in traffic delays last year, with five of them enduring double-digit increases.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Apr. 2025
Spink believed relocation of some of baseball’s lesser-drawing teams was possible, and there was a vast nation of growing burgs with their arms (and wallets) open.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
Two teeny Texas burgs made the list for their preservation of western culture.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
Most big burgs saw sizable year-over-year jumps in traffic delays last year, with five of them enduring double-digit increases.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burg
Noun
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Parents are stepping up to push schools and cities to adapt to increasing temperatures.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Sidewalks are to cities as scenic vistas with unbroken landscapes are to country living.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
8 July 2025
Noun
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His sister’s wedding would take place in a nearly completely white town.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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His childhood at the movies was an escape from a dreary and limited everyday life in a small rural town.—
Suzanne Jill Levine
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
Noun
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Today, Elba is more known for whimsical seaside towns dotted with cafés, shops and visitors from all over Italy and abroad looking for a respite in various scenic harbors before returning to the buzzing metropolis of Florence.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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“Burg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burg. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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