burgher
pronunciation
How to pronounce burgher in British English:
UK [ˈbɜ:gə(r)]
How to pronounce burgher in American English:
US [ˈbɜrgə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a citizen of an English borough
- a member of the middle class
Word Origin
- burgher (n.)
- 1560s, "freeman of a burgh," from Middle Dutch burgher or German Bürger, from Middle High German burger, from Old High German burgari "inhabitant of a fortress," from burg "fortress, citadel" (see borough). Burgh, as a native variant of borough, persists in Scottish English (as in Edinburgh).
Example
- 1. Seller unagree to allowance over 30c burgher push undesirable .
- 2. Karl marx endowed burgher society with economical basis , and there is no burgher society which always pursues individualism in a more general sense .
- 3. This divergence between the urban burgher society and the feudal state has prepared the social and material conditions and institutional basis necessary for the modern nation state .
- 4. In the late period of tang dynasty , the development of marketing economy , the opening-up of cities , the increasing population of industry and commerce , and the mundanization of townspeople , eventually led to the formation of burgher class .