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burgher (bʉrgər)

noun

an inhabitant of a borough or town: now used chiefly to suggest a conservative middle-class citizen

Etymology: ME < burgh, borough; in ModE assimilated < Ger bürger or Du burger

burgher Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • town: He was middle-aged, wealthy, powerful - a respectable burgher of the town.
  • city: The gentle Queen Phillipa interceded with her husband for the lives of the burghers of the city.

Converse of object

  • spring: From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns.
  • mount: The gallant mounted burghers hacked their way through the unarmed crowd, killing eleven people with their swords and injuring many others.
  • have: What have the good, honest burghers of Geordieland done to deserve this?

Adjective modifier

  • good: Good news, on the other hand, for the good burghers of Baghdad.
  • old: They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets.
  • chartered: From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns.
  • brave: His queen took pity on them, and asked if the brave burghers could also be spared if the town surrendered.
  • honest: What have the good, honest burghers of Geordieland done to deserve this?
  • free: This often led to friction between the free burghers and the tenants of the Bishop.

Modifies a noun

  • house: There are many 17th and 18th century residences and burgher houses, churches, palaces and monuments.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: RESURFACING Leek's 18th and 19th century burghers left the town with an attractive palette of floorscape materials.

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