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Brookline

Brookline proper noun: a town in Massachusetts, which is an exclave of Norfolk County.

Proper noun

Brookline

  1. A town in Massachusetts, which is an exclave of Norfolk County.
    • Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025
  2. A former village in Greene County, Missouri, now part of the city of Republic.
  3. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
  4. A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  5. An unincorporated community in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
  6. A town in Windham County, Vermont.

Questions about Brookline

What does Brookline mean?
Brookline means a town in Massachusetts, which is an exclave of Norfolk County.
What part of speech is Brookline?
Brookline is a proper noun.

Words near Brookline in the dictionary

  1. brooklet
  2. brooklets
  3. brooklike
  4. brooklime
  5. brooklimes
  6. Brookline
  7. Brooklyn
  8. Brooklyn Blackout cake
  9. Brooklyn Blackout cakes
  10. Brooklyn Bridge
  11. Brooklyn Center

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