bourgmestre

French

Alternative forms

bourguemaître (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bourgemaistre (with various variants), from Middle Dutch burchmeester and Middle High German burgemeister.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buʁ.mɛstʁ/, /buʁɡ.mɛstʁ/
Audio (Paris) (file)

Noun

bourgmestre m or f by sense (plural bourgmestres)

(Belgium, Luxembourg, and of Germanic-speaking countries) mayor

See also

mayeur
maire

Further reading

“bourgmestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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