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
But American offers a distinct mouth feel in a burgher that seemingly highbrow fromages simply can’t provide.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burgher
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For context, in 2024, the U.S. spent roughly $3,000 per citizen on national defense, more than four times what most European nations spent, according to an article from Barron’s.—
Steven Dudash,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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People of Wekiwa Springs citizen advocacy and engagement group: 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month, Wekiwa Springs Baptist Church, 584 N. Wekiwa Springs Road, Apopka, free, wekiwa-springs.com.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 July 2025
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The organization reports that more than 80 local villagers, largely Christians, have been killed in other attacks in just this month of July alone.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
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Videos from Oddar Meanchey on Thursday showed villagers fleeing in the dead of night, packing their belongings into vehicles and sleeping under tarps.—
Kocha Olarn,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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“Burgher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgher. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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