burgher
A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle classA citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
Значение
значений: 4A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
Bürger, Bürgerin
горожа́нинgorožánin, горожа́нкаgorožánka
a member of the middle class
A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
A member of the medieval mercantile class.
A citizen of a medieval city.
a citizen of an English borough
A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
Переводы
языков: 6По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh + -er (“inhabitant of”)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”).
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