Definitions for "Burgher"
A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
A man of one of the Boer Republics with full citizen rights
a town resident with rights and privileges of the community, the most important being the right to trade
(in Sri Lanka) descended from mixed European (usually Dutch) and indigenous Sri Lankan ancestry
person of European ancestry.
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 member of the middle class