Meaning & use
burgher
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A citizen of a town or city, especially a member of the prosperous middle class in a medieval or early modern European town.
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The burghers of the old city funded the construction of its grand cathedral.
Rembrandt painted many portraits of wealthy Dutch burghers.
A note on using this word
"Burgher" comes from the same root as "borough" and "bourgeois," all tracing back to a Germanic word for a fortified town.
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