BURGHER Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

burgher

noun

ˈbər-gər

Definition of burgher

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 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 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 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

Kaskaskia’s dwindling number of citizens moved inland, to the center of the island.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
To the extent that their fellow-citizens refer to them at all, our government functionaries are perceived not as active agents of change but as inert, self-protecting obstructions.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

Definition of citizen

Noun

There were ten of us, with several large sacks of nonperishable items—canned fish, soap, bottled water—along with more than six hundred arepas that the villagers had cooked the night before.

— Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
The 56-year-old was found guilty last year of inciting social unrest after meeting with villagers displaced by government construction projects, in what was widely seen as one of many legal moves taken by the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet to silence critics.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026

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