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.