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单词 burgher
释义
burgherbur‧gher /ˈbɜːɡə $ ˈbɜːrɡər/ noun [countable] old use Word Origin
WORD ORIGINburgher
Origin:
1500-1600 Dutch or early German burger, from burg ‘town with a defensive wall’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • During our meal the restaurant had begun to fill up with the pre-theatre crowd, Brighton burghers and their wives.
  • Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ, the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers.
  • In general, such luxury items occur only rarely in Lincoln and the owners may well have been relatively wealthy burghers.
  • Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification.
  • Opposition by burghers, who feared for the fishing, ensured that Plymouth Dock, later Devonport, was later chosen instead.
  • The burghers of Birmingham also reckon the chevron-shaped symbol looks like a two-finger salute.
  • The result was stiff, distant even, and the three or four burghers bowed even lower.
  • When the Kyburgers sold Burgdorf to Bern in 1384 the townsfolk had already acquired burgher rights.
word sets
WORD SETS
banish, verbbill of rights, nounbirthright, nounburgher, nouncrown colony, noundefect, verbdemocracy, noundeport, verbdeportee, noundisplaced person, nounelectorate, noungreen card, nounID, nounID card, nounidentification, nounidentity card, nounillegal, nounillegal immigrant, nounimmigration, nounnational, nounnationality, nounnon-resident, nounpatriot, nounpublic, adjectiverefugee, nounregister, verbrepatriate, verbsponsor, nounstateless, adjectivesubject, nounvassal, noun
someone who lives in a particular town
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