burgher
See also: Burgher
English
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Etymology
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From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh + -er (“inhabitant of”). Likely merged with and reinforced by Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burgāri (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɝɡɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ɡə(r)
- Homophone: burger
Noun
burgher (plural burghers)
- A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- A member of the medieval mercantile class.
- A citizen of a medieval city.
- A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).
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Translations
citizen of a borough or town
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