Synonyms of burgher

burgher

noun

ˈbər-gər 

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• citizen
• villager
• townsman
• resident
• inhabitant
• native
• occupant
• town
• townspeople
• resider
• townie
• dweller
• national
• habitant
• townswoman
• denizen
• townsfolk
• suburbanite
• subject
• cliff dweller
• urbanite

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tourist
• visitor
• alien
• foreigner
• guest
• transient
• noncitizen
• nonnative
• gownsman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of burgher

Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers. — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025

These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam. — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

As the film starts, Maria is first met supervising a class trip to the local cider factory owned by local burgher Frank (Sean Gilder), whose daughter Pauline (Nia Brown) is in Maria’s class. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025

But American offers a distinct mouth feel in a burgher that seemingly highbrow fromages simply can’t provide. — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 18 July 2025

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. — 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

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