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English
Etymology
From German Bürgermeister.
Noun
bürgermeister (plural bürgermeisters)
- Synonym of burgomaster
1820, Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany: Describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co., page 393:In that part of Hannover, for example, which is denominated the old town, which contains about 12,000 inhabitants, there are two bürgermeisters, one syndicus, four secretaries, five senators, and one auditor, making in all thirteen persons, with a competent number of clerks and messengers.
1847, Leopold Ranke, translated by Sarah Austin, History of the Reformation in Germany, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, , page 430:There was, it is true, a public reconciliation between the bürgermeisters and the president of the Sixty-four; […]
1914 January 13, C G Hoag, Effective Voting: An Article on Preferential Voting and Proportional Representation, Washington, D.C., page 31:The efficient chief administrators of Prussian cities, the bürgermeisters, are selected and retained in office in the same way.