PGCsomeone who lives in a particular town 〔自治市的〕市民
Examples from the Corpus
burgher• When the Kyburgers sold Burgdorf to Bern in 1384 the townsfolk had already acquiredburgher rights.• Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ, the Bishop himself headed the assembledburghers.• During our meal the restaurant had begun to fill up with the pre-theatre crowd, Brighton burghers and their wives.• Opposition by burghers, who feared for the fishing, ensured that Plymouth Dock, later Devonport, was later chosen instead.• The result was stiff, distant even, and the three or four burghersbowed even lower.• Most burghers who voted for the right did so to expressuncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification.• The burghers of Birmingham also reckon the chevron-shaped symbol looks like a two-finger salute.• In general, such luxuryitemsoccur only rarely in Lincoln and the owners may well have been relatively wealthyburghers.
Originburgher
(1500-1600)Dutch or early Germanburger, from burg“town with a defensive wall”