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HOUSE OF BURGESSES
Dictionary entry overview: What does House of Burgesses mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("House of Burgesses" is a kind of...):
house (an official assembly having legislative powers)
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