Burgher can refer to:

• A title. In the European Middle Ages, a burgher was any freeman of a burgh or borough; or any inhabitant of a borough, a person who lives in town. (Even in modern German the word for citizen is Bürger, and in Dutch the word for citizen is Burger) Also a member of the middle class such as in bourgeois, not, for example, of the upper (manor lord) or lower (serf farmer) class. In pre-modern Sweden and Finland, burghers were an independent Estate, with a monopoly in trade. The label still survives in both countries. In Finland, porvari means "right-winger" as in porvaripuolueet "right-wing parties". In Sweden, the four modern centre-right parliamentary political parties are collectively referred to as de borgerliga (Eng: the middle class ones). A person from Edinburgh, Scotland, is an Edinburgher, see Category:Edinburghers.
• An ethnic group. See Burgher people.

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See also

• Anti-Burgher