borough
Syllables: bo·rough/ˈbʌ.ɹə/US/ˈbʌɹ.oʊ/
borough noun: a town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
Noun
borough (plural boroughs)
- A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
- An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
- The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity.
- Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
- A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
- An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
- A fortified town.
- A town or city.
Proper noun capitalized: Borough
The Borough
borough meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
borough in Hindi
- बरो
borough in Tamil
- பட்டணம், மாநகராட்சி, பெருநகரம்
borough in Urdu
- borough
- نگر nagar
borough in Bengali
- borough
- নগর nogor
More languagesFewer languages
- borough in Telugu
- బరో
- borough in Malayalam
- ബറോ
- borough in Gujarati
- બરો
- borough in Odia
- ବରୋ
Examples of borough in a sentence
- A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, the City of Preston.
- A unitary authority and borough (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire.
- New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.
Forms of borough
| plural | boroughs |
|---|---|
| alternative US | boro |
| alternative form (obsolete) | bourg |
| alternative form (obsolete) | burough |
| alternative form (obsolete) | burrow |
Origin of borough
From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”). Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Danish borg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Turkish burç. Doublet of Brough, burgh, and Bury.
See borough (also for pronunciation).
Words formed from borough
- -boro
- -borough
- Boroughbridge
- borough council
- borough English
- Borough Green
- borough hall
- boroughholder
- boroughhood
- boroughitis
- boroughmaster
- boroughmonger
- boroughwide
- Brookeborough
- close borough
- Conwy County Borough
- county borough
- Denali Borough
- Foxborough
- Guysborough
- interborough
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- Lyndeborough
- Marlborough
- Martinborough
- metropolitan borough
- Moultonborough
- multiborough
- municipal borough
- nomination borough
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- outer borough
- parliamentary borough
- Peterborough
- Petersburg Borough
- pocket borough
- proprietorial borough
- rotten borough
- royal borough
- triborough
- Tyngsborough
- Woodborough
Phrases with borough
- borough halls
- Haines Borough
- borough councils
- Freehold Borough
- Bristol Bay Borough
- North Slope Borough
- Unorganized Borough
- Aleutians East Borough
- Juneau City and Borough
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
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Words that rhyme with borough
Questions about borough
- What does borough mean?
- Borough means a town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
- What is borough in Hindi?
- Borough in Hindi is बरो. See Borough meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is borough?
- Borough can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce borough?
- Borough is pronounced /ˈbʌ.ɹə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of borough?
- The plural of borough is boroughs.
Words near borough in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: borough (page history and authors); Borough (page history and authors); borough (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); borough (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نگر (Urdu) (page history and authors); নগর (Bengali) (page history and authors); borough (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); borough (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); borough (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); borough (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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