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Carrboro

/ˈkæɹ.boʊɹ/

Carrboro proper noun: a town in Orange County, North Carolina.

Proper noun

Carrboro (uncountable)

  1. A town in Orange County, North Carolina.
    • With a population of just under 20,000 Carrboro is the kind of small southern town where the past and the present seem to have been fused into a single moment until it’s no longer one time or the other.2019, “Carrboro”, in Visit Chapel Hill, Orange County Visitors Bureau

Origin of Carrboro

Named for North Carolina industrialist Julian Carr.

Questions about Carrboro

What does Carrboro mean?
Carrboro means a town in Orange County, North Carolina.
What part of speech is Carrboro?
Carrboro is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Carrboro?
Carrboro is pronounced /ˈkæɹ.boʊɹ/.

Words near Carrboro in the dictionary

  1. Carrauntoohill
  2. carraway
  3. carraways
  4. Carrazco
  5. Carrazcos
  6. Carrboro
  7. carrboydite
  8. Carrbridge
  9. Carre
  10. carreau
  11. carreer

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