burgher
2 synonyms for burgher, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A resident of a town, usually one from the middle class.
Etymology
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,...
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