BURGHER

bourgeois, burgher

(noun) a member of the middle class

burgess, burgher

(noun) a citizen of an English borough

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

Burgher (plural Burghers)

A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.

Etymology

Noun

burgher (plural burghers)

A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.

A member of the medieval mercantile class.

A citizen of a medieval city.

A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).

Source: Wiktionary

Burgh"er, n. Etym: [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G. bürger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See Burgh.]

1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

2. (Eccl. Hist.)

Definition: A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the "United Associate Synod of the Secession Church."

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition