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BURGHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the middle class
Synonyms:
bourgeois; burgher
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("burgher" is a kind of...):
common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burgher"):
petit bourgeois (a member of the lower middle class)
Holonyms ("burgher" is a member of...):
bourgeoisie; middle class (the social class between the lower and upper classes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A citizen of an English borough
Synonyms:
burgess; burgher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("burgher" is a kind of...):
Englishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of England)
Context examples:
They camp before a great city, and the base burghers come forth with the keys, and then they make great spoil; or, if it please them better, they take so many horse-loads of silver as a composition; and so they journey on from state to state, rich and free and feared by all.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The burgher glanced back at their fierce faces and quickened his step, while the girl pulled her whimple closer round her, for there was a meaning in their wild eyes, as they stared at the purse and the maiden, which men of all tongues could understand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Round the corner of the narrow street there came rushing a brace of whining dogs with tails tucked under their legs, and after them a white-faced burgher, with outstretched hands and wide-spread fingers, his hair all abristle and his eyes glinting back from one shoulder to the other, as though some great terror were at his very heels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The prince's court, too, with its swarm of noble barons and wealthy knights, many of whom, in imitation of their master, had brought their ladies and their children from England, all helped to swell the coffers of the burghers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An occasional oil lamp at the corner of a street, or in the portico of some wealthy burgher, threw a faint glimmer over the shining cobblestones, and the varied motley crowd who, in spite of the weather, ebbed and flowed along every highway.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Heavy and slow is he by nature, and is not to be brought into battle for the sake of a lady's eyelash or the twang of a minstrel's string, like the hotter blood of the south. But ma foi! lay hand on his wool-bales, or trifle with his velvet of Bruges, and out buzzes every stout burgher, like bees from the tee-hole, ready to lay on as though it were his one business in life.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir knight, said he, my name is David Micheldene, and I am a burgher and alderman of the good town of Norwich, where I live five doors from the church of Our Lady, as all men know on the banks of Yare.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
