name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
burger
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːɡə/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈbəːɡə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: /ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/
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New-Zealand, Wales: /ˈbøːɡə/
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Scotland: /ˈbʌɾɡəɾ/
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/ˈbeːɡə/ Liverpool, without the fair–fur merger
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/ˈbɛːɡə/ Humberside, Teesside, without the fair–fur merger
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homophone: Berger
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homophone: -burger
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homophone: burgher
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: B ER1 G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A hamburger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 3
A similar sandwich or patty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She was planning to have a burger for dinner.
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noun
Meaning 4
Any sandwich that uses two bread rolls or buns (in North America it only refers to a sandwich with two buns or bread rolls and a meat patty).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, India, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK
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noun
Meaning 5
A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Pakistan, derogatory, slang, usually
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noun
Meaning 6
An American.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory
Qualifier: 4chan slang
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noun
Meaning 7
Alternative form of burgher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 8
Alternative spelling of Burgher (“member of a Sri Lankan people”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 9
A white wine grape of French origin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hamburger, beefburger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sandwich
Narrower terms: cheeseburger
noun
Meaning 11
United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Warren Burger, Warren E. Burger, Warren Earl Burger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chief justice
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kónh2mder. Proto-Indo-European *kónh2méh2-der. Proto-Germanic *hanmōder.? Proto-Germanic *hammō Old High German hammeder.? Old High German Hamme Proto-Indo-European *bherǵh- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *bhérǵhsder.? Proto-Indo-European *bhergh-der.? Proto-Germanic *burgz Proto-West Germanic *burg Old High German burg Old High German Hammaburg German Hamburg Proto-Indo-European *wer- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Germanic *warjaną Proto-Germanic *warjaz ▲ Proto-Germanic *-ārijazinflu. Old High German -āri Middle High German -ære German -er German Hamburgerder. English hamburgerclip. English burger Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham + burger. First use appears c. 1937. Sense 5 is likely a back-formation from Burgerland.
See burgher. By surface analysis, burg + -er (“inhabitant of”).
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بُورْجَر (būrgar) — informal: hamburger
- Arabic: بُرْغَر (burḡar) — informal: hamburger
- Arabic: برقر (burgar) — informal: hamburger
- Armenian: բուրգեր (burger) — informal: hamburger
- Bulgarian: бу́ргер (búrger) — informal: hamburger
- Chinese Cantonese: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hon3 bou2) — informal: hamburger
- Chinese Cantonese: 漢堡包 /汉堡包 (hon3 bou2 baau1) — informal: hamburger
- Chinese: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hàn-pò) — informal: hamburger
- Chinese: 肉敆 (bah-kap) — informal: hamburger
- Chinese Mandarin: 漢堡 /汉堡 (hànbǎo) — informal: hamburger
- Chinese Mandarin: 漢堡包 /汉堡包 (hànbǎobāo) — informal: hamburger
- Danish: burger — informal: hamburger
- Esperanto: burgero — informal: hamburger
- Esperanto: hamburgero — informal: hamburger
- Estonian: burger — informal: hamburger
- Estonian: burks — informal: hamburger
- Faroese: burgari — informal: hamburger
- Finnish: purilainen — informal: hamburger
- French: burger — informal: hamburger
- German: Hamburger — informal: hamburger
- German: Burger — informal: hamburger
- Hindi: बर्गर (bargar) — informal: hamburger
- Hindi: हैमबर्गर (haimbargar) — informal: hamburger
- Irish: borgaire — informal: hamburger
- Japanese: バーガー (bāgā) — informal: hamburger
- Korean: 버거 (beogeo) — informal: hamburger
- Māori: pākī — informal: hamburger
- Marathi: बर्गर (bargar) — informal: hamburger
- Norman: bourgaille — informal: hamburger
- Norwegian Bokmål: burger — informal: hamburger
- Norwegian Nynorsk: burgar — informal: hamburger
- Polish: burger — informal: hamburger
- Portuguese: búrguer — informal: hamburger
- Portuguese: xis — informal: hamburger
- Russian: га́мбургер (gámburger) — informal: hamburger
- Russian: бутербро́д (butɛrbród) — informal: hamburger
- Russian: бу́ргер (búrger) — informal: hamburger
- Spanish: búrguer — informal: hamburger
- Spanish: burger — informal: hamburger
- Spanish: burguer — informal: hamburger
- Swedish: burgare — informal: hamburger
- Thai: เบอร์เกอร์ (bəə-gə̂ə) — informal: hamburger
- Turkish: burger — informal: hamburger
Real reading context