Burmeister
German, noun
Burmeister is spelled B-U-R-M-E-I-S-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,749th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Burmeister is a German masculine noun meaning “a local leader such as a mayor or village chief” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Burmeister mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea local leader such as a mayor or village chief
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Burmeister
- Burmeisters genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Burmeister in German?
Burmeister appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).