Burgher meaning

bûr'gər
A citizen of a town or borough.
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A comfortable or complacent member of the middle class.
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A member of the mercantile class of a medieval European city.
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A citizen of a medieval European city.
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An inhabitant of a borough or town.
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A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
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A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).

A member of the medieval mercantile class.

A citizen of a medieval city.

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A member of a mixed race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.
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Origin of burgher

From Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burgari (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰərgʰ- (“fortified elevation”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”). More at borough.

Sentence Examples

  • Yet they continued to multiply, and exercised at times considerable influence; though they had few supporters among the baronage, yet among the lesser gentry and still more among the burgher class and in the universities they were strong.

  • Without being so forward as the rival city of Augsburg to embrace the architectural fashions of the Italian renaissance - continuing, indeed, to be profoundly imbued with the old and homely German burgher spirit, and to wear, in a degree which time has not very much impaired even yet, the quaintness of the old German civic aspect - she had imported before the close of the 15th century a fair share of the new learning of Italy, and numbered among her citizens distinguished humanists like Hartmann Schedel, Sebald Schreier, Willibald Pirkheimer and Conrad Celtes.

  • Here it is sufficient to say that, generally, the term free burgher' was a complete misnomer.

  • Hence the terms "burgh," "borough" in English, baurgs in Gothic, the earliest Germanic designations for a town; "burgher," "burgess" for its inhabitants.

  • But, though now admitted to power through the burgher reaction, as a concession to democratic ideas, and to cause a split among the greater people, they enjoyed very limited privileges.'

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