'Burgomaster' definitions:
Definition of 'burgomaster'
From: WordNet
noun
A mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria
Definition of 'Burgomaster'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull ({Larus glaucus}), common in arctic regions. [1913 Webster]