burghership
gər noun
an inhabitant of a town, especially a member of the middle class; citizen.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a member of the trading or mercantile class of a medieval city |
| 2. | a respectable citizen; bourgeois |
| 3. | archaic a citizen or inhabitant of a corporate town, esp on the Continent |
| 4. | (South African) history |
| a. a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics | |
| b. (as modifier): burgher troops | |
| [C16: from German Bürger, or Dutch burger freeman of a | |
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burgher
1560s, "freeman of a burgh," from M.Du. burgher, from M.H.G. burger, from O.H.G. burgari "inhabitant of a fortress," from burg "fortress, citadel" (see borough).
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