About The Word Burgher
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Burgher
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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.''
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