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Burgher Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Burgher? [n] a member of the middle class [n] a citizen of an English borough Synonyms \| Synonyms for Burgher: bourgeois \| burgess Related Terms \| Find terms related to Burgher: anal character \| Babbitt \| big-city man \| bourgeois \| burgess \| Christian \| citizen \| city dweller \| city man \| city slicker \| compulsive character \| conformer \| conformist \| conventionalist \| exemplary citizen \| exurbanite \| formalist \| good citizen \| good neighbor \| methodologist \| Middle American \| middle-class type \| model child \| oppidan \| organization man \| parrot \| pedant \| perfectionist \| Philistine \| pillar of society \| plastic person \| precisian \| precisianist \| respectable citizen \| sheep \| square \| suburbanite \| teenybopper \| townee \| towner \| townfolk \| townfolks \| townsman \| townspeople \| townswoman \| trimmer \| true Christian \| urbanite \| villager \| villageress \| yes-man See Also \| bourgeoisie \| common man \| common person \| commoner \| Englishman \| middle class \| petit bourgeois Burgher In Webster's Dictionary \Burgh"er\, n. [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G. b["u]rger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See {Burgh}.] 1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the ``United Associate Synod of the Secession Church.''

Burgher Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Burgher?

[n] a member of the middle class
[n] a citizen of an English borough

Synonyms | Synonyms for Burgher: bourgeois | burgess

Burgher In Webster's Dictionary

\Burgh"er\, n. [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G.
b["u]rger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See {Burgh}.]
1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the
   privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.

Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of
      Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name
      of the ``United Associate Synod of the Secession
      Church.''

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