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The area, properly called Southwark, just south of London Bridge, which is at the north end of Borough High Street (OS grid ref TQ3279).
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noun
A fortified town.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A town or city.
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Usage: rare
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noun
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
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noun
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
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noun
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; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
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noun
Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
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A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
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noun
An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
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Usage: UK, historical
Topics: law
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noun
an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
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Broader terms: town, townspeople, townsfolk
Narrower terms: burgh, pocket borough, rotten borough
noun
one of the administrative divisions of a large city
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Broader terms: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
Narrower terms: Greenwich, Westminster, City of Westminster, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
History
See borough (also for pronunciation).
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.
Across languages
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