Burgher (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. an inhabitant of a town, especially a member of the middle class; citizen.
noun
  1. a member of the trading or mercantile class of a medieval city
  2. a respectable citizen; bourgeois
  3. a citizen or inhabitant of a corporate town, esp on the Continent
  4. Southern African history
    • a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics
    • (as modifier)
Burgher (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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