Synonyms of burghers

burghers

noun

plural of burgher

as in citizens

a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis

many of the college students are regarded by the local burghers as obnoxious louts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• citizens
• villagers
• residents
• townsmen
• inhabitants
• natives
• occupants
• townspeople
• towns
• residers
• townies
• dwellers
• nationals
• townswomen
• habitants
• townsfolk
• denizens
• suburbanites
• cliff dwellers
• subjects
• urbanites

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• visitors
• foreigners
• tourists
• guests
• noncitizens
• aliens
• transients
• nonnatives
• gownsmen

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of burghers

Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers. — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025

These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam. — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025