burgher
burgher
Definition
burgher (bʉr′gər)
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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