burger

[ bur-ger ]
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noun
  1. a hamburger.

  2. a food patty, or patty on a bun, containing ingredients other than beef: veggie or turkey burgers.

Origin of burger

1
1935–40, Americanism; extracted from hamburger by false analysis as ham1 + burger

Words that may be confused with burger

Other definitions for Burger (2 of 3)

Burger
[ bur-ger ]

noun
  1. Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.

Other definitions for -burger (3 of 3)

-burger

  1. a combining form extracted from hamburger, occurring in compounds the initial element of which denotes a special garnish for a hamburger or a substitute ingredient for the meat patty: baconburger; cheeseburger; fishburger.

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How to use burger in a sentence

  • It depends solely upon its Magistrates, who are chose by the Burgers themselves.

  • Biskamp enquired what on earth it was all about; Burgers deplored that Marx should have published a work so dull and fragmentary.

    Karl Marx | Achille Loria
  • In or about the year 1872, the burghers of the Republic elected Mr. Burgers their President.

    The Last Boer War | H. Rider Haggard
  • When Mr. Burgers got to England, he found that city capitalists would have nothing whatever to say to his railway scheme.

    The Last Boer War | H. Rider Haggard
  • The Annexation proclamation was also shown to President Burgers, and a paragraph eliminated at his suggestion.

    The Last Boer War | H. Rider Haggard

British Dictionary definitions for burger (1 of 2)

burger

/ (ˈbɜːɡə) /


noun
  1. informal

    • short for hamburger

    • (in combination): a cheeseburger

British Dictionary definitions for Bürger (2 of 2)

Bürger

/ (German ˈbyrɡər) /


noun
  1. Gottfried August (ˈɡɔtfriːt ˈauɡʊst). 1747–94, German lyric poet, noted particularly for his ballad Lenore (1773)

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