burgher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.; A member of the medieval mercantile class.
  2. A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.; A citizen of a medieval city.
  3. A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).

词形变化

burghers plural burger alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
antiburgher burgherdom burgherhood burgherly burghermaster burghership
相关词
bourgeois burgess burgomaster

词源

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.
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