Burgher

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  • noun. A citizen of a town or borough.
  • noun. A comfortable or complacent member of the middle class.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A member of the mercantile class of a medieval European city.
  • noun. A citizen of a medieval European city.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a freeman; hence, any citizen of a borough or town.
  • noun. One of a body of Presbyterians in Scotland, constituting one of the divisions of the early Secession Church.
  • noun. In South Africa, a citizen of the former Transvaal Republic or of the Orange Free State.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
  • noun. A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess “the true religion professed within the realm”), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to middle class.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a member of the middle class
  • noun. a citizen of an English borough
  • Word Usage
    "Jewish population, the so-called burgher estate, [1] consisting of petty artisans and those impoverished tradesmen who could not afford to enrol in the mercantile guilds, though there are cases on record where poor"
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