Usually means: Middle-class town dwellers, merchants.
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  1. burghers: Merriam-Webster
  2. burghers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. burghers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Burghers, burgher's, burghers: Wordnik
  5. burghers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Burghers, burghers: Wiktionary
  7. burghers: Dictionary.com
  8. Burghers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Burghers: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Burghers: Legal dictionary

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  1. Burghers: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Burgher)

noun:  A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
noun:  A member of the medieval mercantile class.
noun:  A citizen of a medieval city.
noun:  A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
noun:  A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.
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