burgher
Plural: burghers
Noun
- A citizen of a borough or town, typically a prosperous one.
- a citizen of an English borough
- a member of the middle class
- A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- A member of the medieval mercantile class.
- A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- A citizen of a medieval city.
- A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
Examples
- The burgher of the Scrabble board always knew the best spots for high-scoring words.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh + -er (“inhabitant of”). Likely merged with and reinforced by Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burgāri (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).
Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.
Scrabble Score: 13
burgher: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordburgher: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
burgher: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
burgher: valid Words With Friends Word