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单词 burgher
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burghern.

Brit. /ˈbəːɡə/, U.S. /ˈbərɡər/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s burger, burgar, burgor, 1600s bourger.
Etymology: In 16th cent. burger , < early modern German or Dutch burger citizen of a burg or fortified town; afterwards assimilated to English burgh , borough n.
1. An inhabitant of a burgh, borough, or corporate town; a citizen. Chiefly used of continental towns, but also of English boroughs, in a sense less technical than burgess. Now somewhat archaic. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun]
borough-manc1000
city mana1400
townsman1433
town manc1475
town dweller1484
oppidan?1548
burgher?1555
townsfolk1562
townsfolk1592
townswoman1612
town liver1620
town folk1679
citess1685
citizeness1754
citizette1798
townie1825
urban1835
townskip1837
townsperson1840
urbanite1892
burgheress1901
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > esp. as having civic rights
burgess?c1225
citizena1325
commoner1384
citinerc1450
in-burgess1479
burgher?1555
bourgeoisie1593
bourgeois1604
burgessdom1661
?1555 [implied in: M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Treat. Death i. xvi. 57 Our conuersation & burgership is in heauen. (at burghership n. b)].
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K4v Goe now and bind the Burghers hand and foot.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 10 Your Argosies..Like Signiors and rich Burgars on the flood. View more context for this quotation
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H6 As those great burgers of the forest wild, The Hart, the Goat.
1652 Let. fr. Paris in Severall Proc. Parl. No. 157. Had they..not been appeased by some of the Bourgers [of Paris].
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 186 in Justice Vindicated A Burger who hath..half a mark, let him pay a Peter-peny.
1698 in R. Holmes Bk. of Entries of Pontefract Corp. 233 The most able and sufficient Burgesse or Burgor inhabiting and residing in the said town.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xxiii. 402 The Burghers wives of Horsham..go as fine as they do in other places.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 56 A rich burgher of Antwerp..in a broad Flemish hat.
a1842 T. B. Macaulay Armada And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 316 The valiant burghers..had already learned to grapple with the Dane.
2. A member of that section of the Scottish Secession Church, which upheld the lawfulness of the burgess oath: also attributive. See Antiburgher n.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Secession > person > burgher
burgher1766
1766 J. Brown Hist. Acct. Seceders 67 The Anti-burghers..persecuted their Burgher brethren with deposition and excommunication.
1773 J. Smith Hist. Sketches Relief Church 41 The Burgher clergy maintained that it [the Synod] remained in their society, while the Antiburghers endeavoured to prove that they carried it away with them to Mr. Gibb's manse.
1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) 18 John Brown, Burgher minister at Whitburn.
1881 D. Masson Carlyle in Macmillan's Mag. 45 74 That Nonconforming communion, called the Burgher Seceders.
3. In Ceylon; see quot.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka > [noun]
Cingalese1613
Kaffir1704
Ceylonese1726
Sinhalese1801
burgher1807
Kandyan1849
Sri Lankan1973
1807 Cordiner Descr. Ceylon Admitted by the Dutch to all the privileges of citizens under the denomination of Burghers.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 457/1 The descendants of Europeans of unmixed blood, and that race which has sprung from the intercourse of Europeans with the natives, are called Burghers.
4. South African. A Dutch-speaking citizen of the Cape Colony, the Natal or Transvaal (South African) Republics, or the Orange Free State before the advent of British rule. Also attributive. Now historical.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Angolan1600
Angola1653
Malay1765
South African1806
Ngwaketsea1832
bushboya1834
Kapenaar1834
Transkeian1847
bosch-man1849
Natalian1850
burgher1879
Transvaaler1887
veldman1895
Rhodesian1897
Vaalpens1899
backvelder1911
plattelander1934
southwester1960
Zimbabwean1961
Zambian1963
Botswanian1966
Botswanan1967
Namibian1968
Ciskeian1973
Sowetan1974
1879 B. Frere et al. Speech Cape Town 24 To encourage the brave Burghers and Southey's Volunteers to do their best to put an end to the war on the northern border of the Colony.
1879 (title) Interview between..Sir Bartle Frere, and the Deputation from the Boer Committee, At the Burgher Camp, April, 1879.
1881 F. R. Statham Blacks, Boers, & British iii. 43 To save them from annihilation at the hands of the Free State burghers, the Basutos were, in 1868, taken under British protection.
1898 Kruger in South Africa 1 Jan. 11/1 Burghers and fellow-countrymen, the times are such that a wise and judicious development of our sources of aid requires the most earnest consideration.
1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari iii. 56 Every burgher was permitted, if not actually enjoined, to shoot a Bushman on sight.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1).
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 143 ‘I do not apprehend,’ answered the burgher-magistrate, ‘that the young man Butler's zeal is of so inflammable a character.’
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. viii. 62 Mark that queenlike burgher-woman.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 170 Contests, in which one club of burgher-oligarchs successively displaced another.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Introd. vii. 42 The burgher class controlled the government.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens III. xiii. iv. 20 Springing from a burgher stock.
1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere i. 154 To show the inferiority of a burgher militia to professional soldiers in war.

Derivatives

ˈburgherage n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > collectively
borough-folkc1200
borough-werenc1275
burgh-werec1275
cityc1300
town folkc1325
towna1382
commonity1456
nation1523
portery1565
town1582
townspeople1587
civility1598
municipality1790
citizenry1795
citizenhood1851
burgherage1858
burgherdom1884
burgherhood1885
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. iii. 210 Baronage, Burgherage, they were German mostly by blood, and by culture were wholly German.
ˈburgherdom n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > collectively
borough-folkc1200
borough-werenc1275
burgh-werec1275
cityc1300
town folkc1325
towna1382
commonity1456
nation1523
portery1565
town1582
townspeople1587
civility1598
municipality1790
citizenry1795
citizenhood1851
burgherage1858
burgherdom1884
burgherhood1885
1884 19th Cent. July 121 Voss the poet of burgherdom.
ˈburgherhood n. the body of burghers or citizens collectively.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > collectively
borough-folkc1200
borough-werenc1275
burgh-werec1275
cityc1300
town folkc1325
towna1382
commonity1456
nation1523
portery1565
town1582
townspeople1587
civility1598
municipality1790
citizenry1795
citizenhood1851
burgherage1858
burgherdom1884
burgherhood1885
1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 413/2 As the burgherhood enlarged, the assembly became a huge mob.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

burgherv.

Etymology: < burgher n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈburgher.
Scottish.
= burgess v.
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a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) i. 70 Being ‘Burghered,’ or made to ‘Ride the Stang’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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