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
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.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burgher
Noun
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Freedom of speech Alvarado said free speech on college campuses must be defended, and citizens should continue to have conversations on disagreements.—
Hannah Pinski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As with the enclosures in England and Scotland, villagers were uprooted and dispossessed to make way for sheep and cattle.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Sep. 2025
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The children were accidentally napalmed by South Vietnamese pilots who mistook a group of fleeing villagers for Viet Cong.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Burgher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgher. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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