[syn: bourgeois, burgher]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Burgher \Burgh"er\, n. [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G.
b["u]rger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See Burgh.]
1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the
privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
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2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch
seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess
oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion
professed within the realm"), the opposite party being
called antiburghers.
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Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of
Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name
of the "United Associate Synod of the Secession
Church."
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
burgher
n 1: a citizen of an English borough [syn: burgess, burgher]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "burgher":
Babbitt, Christian, Middle American, Philistine, anal character,
big-city man, bourgeois, burgess, citizen, city dweller, city man,
city slicker, compulsive character, conformer, conformist,
conventionalist, exemplary citizen, exurbanite, formalist,
good citizen, good neighbor, methodologist, middle-class type,
model child, oppidan, organization man, parrot, pedant,
perfectionist, pillar of society, plastic person, precisian,
precisianist, respectable citizen, sheep, square, suburbanite,
teenybopper, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman,
townspeople, townswoman, trimmer, true Christian, urbanite,
villager, villageress, yes-man