burgher

[ bur-ger ]

noun

1. an inhabitant of a town, especially a member of the middle class; citizen.

burgher

/ ˈbɜːɡə /

noun

1. a member of the trading or mercantile class of a medieval city
2. a respectable citizen; bourgeois
3. archaic.
   a citizen or inhabitant of a corporate town, esp on the Continent
4. history
   1. a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics
   2. ( as modifier )

      burgher troops

Other Words From

• burgher·ship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of burgher¹

1560–70; < Middle Dutch < Middle High German burger, equivalent to burg borough + -er -er ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of burgher¹

C16: from German Bürger , or Dutch burger freeman of a borough

Example Sentences

Charles IX., who afterwards became rather too fond of these invasions of burgher homes, supped with a good appetite.

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The burgher races these are called, while on the third and last day are the officers' races.

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But such things would not have shocked the masses of plain burgher Frenchmen at all.

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Yet there was nothing ostentatious, or which seemed inconsistent with the degree of an opulent burgher.

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In the first place, painting celebrated as its worthiest subject the free burgher, the tighter in the heroic struggle for freedom.

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Related Words

• inhabitant
• national
• resident
• taxpayer