burgher
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of burgher
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
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noun
- A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
- A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.
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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…
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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, citadel”), from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.
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