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What does House of Burgesses mean?

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What does House of Burgesses mean?

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Mel Brandle Posted

Seems like you can get a better answer from Google than you can here. Google states that Burgesses is another word for “representatives” so literally you have a house of representatives. It most certainly isn’t any other name for a generic house that has odds and ends in storage.

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• HOUSE OF BURGESSES (noun) The noun HOUSE OF BURGESSES has 1 sense: 1. the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia Familiarity information: HOUSE OF BURGESSES used as a noun is very rare.