Burgher is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BURGHER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a freeman or citizen of a borough
• a citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy bourgeoisie
• (in southern Africa) an Afrikaans citizen of a Boer Republic.
• (in southern Africa) a civilian member of a local militia unit.
• a descendant of a Dutch or Portuguese colonist in Sri Lanka.
• A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
• A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess \"the true religion professed within the realm\"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
• a citizen of an English borough
• a member of the middle class
• citizen
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a citizen of a borough

Words related to BURGHER

burghers14 citizen18

Words that contain BURGHER

burghers14 hamburgher21 hamburghers22

How to use BURGHER in a sentence

• The men-at-arms drink by a good fire, while the burgher bites his nails to buy them wine and wood.
• He was now surveying with astonishment the photograph of this official surrounded with his biblical progeny, like a good-natured burgher.
• The gloom got us again, despite all that de Burgher could do, and finally he succumbed to the prevailing atmosphere and gave us up as a bad job.
• And oft the burgher, sitting here In his walled rose-garden, hears the clear Shrill scream of the eagle circling near.
• The King allows his courtier to accuse the great burgher of capital crime, and they rob him and divide all his wealth among themselves.
• The Boer burgher could eat, sleep, or fight whenever he wished, and inasmuch as he was a law unto himself, there was no one who could compel him to change his habits.
• All the successes of the Boer army were the result of the fact that every burgher was a general, and to the same cause may be attributed almost every defeat.
• In one of the minor Krijgsraads in Natal there was a tie in the voting, which was ended when an old burgher called his corporal aside and influenced him to change his vote.
• The burgher was bound by no laws except such as he made for himself.
• They were unable to replace with another a single fallen burgher and prevented from adding by importation to their stock of ammunition a single rifle or a single pound of powder.
• Had they been driven down the hill, every burgher fleeing for his life would have formed a target for the enemy.
• And so it often happened that by proclamation a burgher would be disarmed while another would compel ten others to take the field.
• On one occasion a burgher, intentionally or out of fright, lit his fuse while the others were still engaged depositing their charges under the rails.
• But be it known to all, that all ordinary rights of property, trade, and usages will still be accorded to everyone, burgher or not.
• The burgher losses were reported to have been 4 killed and 5 wounded.
• I say I am prepared to fight them, and I think every burgher of the South African Republic is with me.
• In all ages there have been jealousies and strife between the military and the respectable burgher class, and Freiberg was no exception to this rule.
• Has not the burgher of Brussels a different law from the burgher of Antwerp? The burgher of Antwerp from the burgher of Ghent? How comes that? Another Citizen.
• The sergeant knew him for Jehan Brosse, the bandy-legged tailor of the passage off the Corraterie, a sound burgher and a good man whom it were a shame to exclude.
• When the time of grace had elapsed, with a pike-point a few inches from his back and the gleaming eyes of an avenging burgher behind it, he fled shrieking round the table.
• I knew that great familiarity between mistress and servant was usual among the burgher class.
• Yolanda then turned to Franz and his silks, and I, who had always thought myself of some importance, was dismissed by a burgher girl.
• It was a Sabbath day, and every burgher maiden in Basel that boasted a sweetheart would be abroad with him in the sunshine.
• Even the friendship of a helpless burgher girl is not to be despised.
• He knows that one in his station may not mate with a burgher girl.
• When a girl happens to be both, the burgher girl is apt to be influenced by the princess, as the princess is apt to be modified by the life of the burgher girl.
• Perhaps her yearning had led her to hope that he might in the end be willing to fling behind him his high estate for the sake of a burgher girl.
• She is, I believe, a niece of one Castleman, a burgher of Peronne.
• Here the thrifty burgher first busied himself in making sundry calculations, with a zeal that proved how much his mind was engrossed by the occupation.
• Judge Morice is a Burgher and a prominent Judge of the Transvaal Court.
• The enemy had surrounded us in the night, and each burgher had to do his utmost to escape from out of the half-circle.
• It is surprising how quickly the burgher forces can be levied.
• Forthwith Sir Lavaine led Sir Launcelot to the house of a worthy burgher, where he might stay in privacy, undiscovered by those of his acquaintance.

Similar words containing BURGH without suffix er

burgh11 burghs12 burghal13 burghul13 burghers14 burghuls14 hamburgher21 hamburghers22

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