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BURGHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burgher mean? 

BURGHER (noun)
  The noun BURGHER has 2 senses:

1. a citizen of an English boroughplay

2. a member of the middle classplay

  Familiarity information: BURGHER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BURGHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A citizen of an English borough

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

burgess; burgher

Hypernyms ("burgher" is a kind of...):

Englishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of England)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the middle class

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bourgeois; burgher

Hypernyms ("burgher" is a kind of...):

common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burgher"):

petit bourgeois (a member of the lower middle class)

Holonyms ("burgher" is a member of...):

bourgeoisie; middle class (the social class between the lower and upper classes)


 Context examples 


By God's coif! we are men of peace, but we are free English burghers, not to be mishandled either in our country or abroad.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. James of Compostella! but these burghers would bear some taxing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, with jingle of arms and clatter of hoofs, they rode across the Bridge of Avon, while the burghers shouted lustily for the flag of the five roses and its gallant guard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here passed the round-faced burgher, swollen with prosperity, his sweeping dark-clothed gaberdine, flat velvet cap, broad leather belt and dangling pouch all speaking of comfort and of wealth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who is this travel-stained youth who dares to ride so madly through the lines of staring burghers?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So used were the good burghers of Bordeaux to martial display and knightly sport, that an ordinary joust or tournament was an everyday matter with them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In front of the minster and abbey of St. Andrew's was a large square crowded with priests, soldiers, women, friars, and burghers, who made it their common centre for sight-seeing and gossip.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mine eye catches at times a flash and sparkle among yonder houses which assuredly never came from shipman's jacket or the gaberdine of a burgher.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hence was it that the good burghers of Romsey were all in the streets, that gay flags and flowers brightened the path from the nunnery to the church, and that a long procession wound up to the old arched door leading up the bride to these spiritual nuptials.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I would have you to know, clerk, that I am a free English burgher, and that I dare say my mind to our father the Pope himself, let alone such a lacquey's lacquey as you!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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