Burgher vs. Freeman — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Burgher and Freeman
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Burgher
A citizen of a town or borough.
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Freeman
A person not in slavery or serfdom.
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Burgher
A comfortable or complacent member of the middle class.
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Freeman
One who possesses the rights or privileges of a citizen.
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Burgher
A member of the mercantile class of a medieval European city.
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Freeman
A free person, particularly:
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Burgher
A citizen of a medieval European city.
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Freeman
A person who is not a serf or slave.
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Burgher
A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
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Freeman
(historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
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Burgher
A member of the medieval mercantile class.
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Freeman
An honorary freeman: a person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
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Burgher
A citizen of a medieval city.
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Freeman
(usually as two words) A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.
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Burgher
A prosperous member of the community; a middle class citizen (may connote complacency).
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Freeman
A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.
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Burgher
A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
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Freeman
An independent fur trapper.
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Burgher
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.
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Freeman
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
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Burgher
A citizen of an English borough
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Freeman
A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman.
Both having been made freemen on the same day.
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Burgher
A member of the middle class
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Freeman
A person who is not a serf or a slave
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