burghers
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burghers, plural;
/ˈbərgər/,
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burghers, plural;
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A citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy bourgeoisie
Web Definitions:
- (burgher) burgess: a citizen of an English borough
- (burgher) bourgeois: a member of the middle class
- (Burgher (people)) The Burghers are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants of European colonists from the 16th to 20th centuries (mostly Portuguese, Dutch, German and British) and local women, with some minorities of Swedish, ...
- (Burgher) A freeman or inhabitant who enjoys all the privileges of a citizen of a town or borough.
- (BURGHER) a town resident with full rights and privileges of the town
- (BURGHER) A man of one of the Boer Republics with full citizen rights
- (Burgher) Administrative person living in a town.
- They were the Dutch equivalent of the French bourgeoisie, the German Burgers and the English burgesses. in other words the "middle class". ...
- Full citizens of medieval and early modern towns, usually merchants or independent craftsmen. Sometimes called ‘burgesses’ in England. Origin of French word ‘bourgeois’.