Definition of burgher
- n. - A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the
privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the
privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
- n. - 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.