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say it: BUR-bij
burbage is a noun meaning "English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)". It is pronounced /ˈbɝbɪdʒ/ — BUR-bij. It carries one recorded sense.
English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burbage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.