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n. A citizen of a town or borough.

n. A comfortable or complacent member of the middle class.

n. A member of the mercantile class of a medieval European city.

n. A citizen of a medieval European city.

n. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to middle class.

n. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

n. 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.

n. An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a freeman; hence, any citizen of a borough or town.

n. One of a body of Presbyterians in Scotland, constituting one of the divisions of the early Secession Church.

n. In South Africa, a citizen of the former Transvaal Republic or of the Orange Free State.

n. a member of the middle class

n. a citizen of an English borough

"In times of peace the citizen of the Boer republics was called a burgher, and when he took up arms and went to war he received no special title to distinguish him from the man who remained at home."

Englishman   

citizen    freeman   

Berger    Burger    burger   

landowner    shopkeeper    bourgeoisie    businessman    provident    matron    yeoman    landholder    housewife    householder