as in citizen
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
many of the college students are regarded by the local burghers as obnoxious louts
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Recent Examples of burgher
Gerhard Siegel earns the audience’s gratitude by singing Herod not as a weak-willed despot but as a comically lascivious burgher out of Rosenkavalier.
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Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
Women glide past, a mix of 19th-century bordello madams, shopkeepers and wives of wealthy burghers.
—Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
The dire warnings that there would be blackouts, power shortages, and prostrated Germany industries unable to compete on the world market rattled many politicos and burghers, even though the blackouts never transpired and Germany exported at record levels last year.
—Paul Hockenos, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2013
Image The burghers who proffered sacrifice were spared at the last minute, French legend has it, making Rodin’s retrieval of life from death a symbolic one.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Seattle's best burgers (Image credit: Getty / Kevin Schafer)
As of 2024, Dick's has been serving burgers to the burghers of Seattle for 70 years.
—Neil Davey, theweek, 16 Sep. 2024
By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
—Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
Conversion of old office buildings into apartments, lofts and condos was underway, but local burghers saw the Super Bowl as a catalyst that could create a boom in downtown living.
—M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2024
The ensemble performs at Mass for the pleasure of the local burghers and townsfolk, whose contributions to Sant’Ignazio are obviously vital to its existence.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
Women glide past, a mix of 19th-century bordello madams, shopkeepers and wives of wealthy burghers.
—Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
The dire warnings that there would be blackouts, power shortages, and prostrated Germany industries unable to compete on the world market rattled many politicos and burghers, even though the blackouts never transpired and Germany exported at record levels last year.
—Paul Hockenos, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2013
Image The burghers who proffered sacrifice were spared at the last minute, French legend has it, making Rodin’s retrieval of life from death a symbolic one.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Seattle's best burgers (Image credit: Getty / Kevin Schafer)
As of 2024, Dick's has been serving burgers to the burghers of Seattle for 70 years.
—Neil Davey, theweek, 16 Sep. 2024
By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
—Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
Conversion of old office buildings into apartments, lofts and condos was underway, but local burghers saw the Super Bowl as a catalyst that could create a boom in downtown living.
—M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2024
The ensemble performs at Mass for the pleasure of the local burghers and townsfolk, whose contributions to Sant’Ignazio are obviously vital to its existence.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burgher
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Law Professor Sonia Gipson Rankin argues that Michigan citizens accused of welfare fraud found themselves in a guessing game of who is liable -was it the unemployment agency, technology vendors or management consultants?—
Anjana Susarla,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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During the trial, the prosecution argued that Patterson had the opportunity to pick lethal mushrooms after seeing their location posted on the citizen science iNaturalist website.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
Noun
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Afterward, Masai villagers sold handmade beadwork, textiles, and wood-carvings.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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At the sight of them, the villagers around me spring to action, shouting in Quechua and waving the rope aggressively.—
David Nolan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 July 2025
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“Burgher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgher. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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