burgher in English

noun
1
a citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy bourgeoisie.
Holland was from the mid-1600s a Republic, so the wealthy merchants, burghers , and businessmen became the defacto rulers of the town and country - much as it is in the U.S. today.

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1. Who Was a Burgher? Burgher is a synonym for many words used in modern English, including bourgeoisie, burgess, citizen, and urban elite.Although generally not aristocrats or nobles, medieval Burghers enjoyed a special legal and economic status because they were citizens of a particular town.

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3. In 1498 he married Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg, the daughter of an eminent Grand Burgher of Augsburg (German Großbürger zu Augsburg)

4. The Burgher people of Sri Lanka and the Indo people of Indonesia as well as the Creoles of Suriname are mixed race people of Dutch descent.

5. Burgher In the seventeenth century, in contrast, more and more scholars would show preference for marrying other scholars’ or Burghers’ daughters from families that cultivated such alliances for several …

6. Middle English Burgeis, Middle Dutch burgher and German Bürger).The Old French word Burgeis comes from bourg, meaning a market town or medieval village, itself derived …

7. Grand Burgher [male] or Grand Burgheress [female] (from German: Großbürger [male], Großbürgerin [female]) is a specific conferred or inherited title of medieval German …

8. His marriage to Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg, the daughter of an eminent Grand Burgher of Augsburg, raised the family status and allowed him to purchase a seat on the city council

9. Hence (sense 4) Burgheress noun historical, a female burgher; (sense 1 a and 2) burghership noun, the status or condition, rights, and privileges of citizenship; (sense 1 a and 3) burghery noun historical, burghers collectively.

10. Examples of burgher in a Sentence many of the college students are regarded by the local Burghers as obnoxious louts Recent Examples on the Web But El Paso’s Burghers had visions for a different …

11. Grand Burgher [male] or Grand Burgheress [female] is a specific conferred or inherited title of medieval German origin and legally defined preeminent status granting exclusive constitutional privileges and legal rights, who were magnates and subordinate only to the Emperor, independent of feudalism and territorial nobility or lords paramount.

12. Grand Burgher [male] or Grand Burgheress [female] (from German: Großbürger [male], Großbürgerin [female]) is a specific conferred or inherited title of medieval German origin and legally defined preeminent status granting exclusive constitutional privileges and legal rights (German: Großbürgerrecht), who were magnates and subordinate only to the Emperor, independent of feudalism and