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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024burgh•er /ˈbɜrgɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Governmentone who lives in a town or borough, esp. a wealthy or rich member of the middle class.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024burgh•er (bûr′gər),USA pronunciation n. - Governmentan inhabitant of a town, esp. a member of the middle class;
citizen.
- Middle High German burger, equivalent. to burg borough + -er -er1
- Middle Dutch
- 1560–70
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: burgher /ˈbɜːɡə/ n - a member of the trading or mercantile class of a medieval city
- a respectable citizen; bourgeois
- archaic a citizen or inhabitant of a corporate town, esp on the Continent
- South African a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics
Etymology: 16th Century: from German Bürger, or Dutch burger freeman of a borough |