burgher

大学

n. 公民, 市民

发音

/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/

词形变化

burghers 复数 burghers

别名

burger

教材释义与例句

名词

市民（现主要指某些欧洲国家中产阶级的市民或镇民）；公民

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.

    A member of the medieval mercantile class.

  2. 2.

    A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.

    A citizen of a medieval city.

  3. 3.

    A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

bourgeois burgess

上位词 2

commoner Englishperson

下位词 1

petit bourgeois

整体词 2

bourgeoisie middle class

词源

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”). Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.

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