BURGHERS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

burghers

noun

plural of burgher

as in citizens

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 burghers 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

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Noun

The drop follows the nationwide, bipartisan backlash to the massive immigration enforcement operation in the Minneapolis area; the killings of two American citizens at the hands of federal agents there; and a shakeup in Department of Homeland Security leadership.

— Julia Ingram, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
As many as eight thousand citizens were massacred.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026