Noun: borough
| Singular | borough |
| Plural | boroughs |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like borough
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”).
2. Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Danish borg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Turkish burç. Doublet of Brough, burgh, and Bury. See: Middle English Nouns '
borwe', Dutch Nouns '
burcht', German Nouns '
Burg', Danish Nouns '
borg', Swedish Nouns '
borg', French Nouns '
bourg'.
Verbs referencing "borough"
Danish Nouns
borg, Swedish Nouns
borg, German Nouns
Burg, Ancient Greek Nouns
πύργος, Dutch Nouns
burcht, French Nouns
bourg, Italian Nouns
bargello, English Nouns
Bargello.