BOROUGH
\bˈʌɹə], \bˈʌɹə], \b_ˈʌ_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of BOROUGH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
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The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
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An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
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The pledge or surety thus given.
By Oddity Software
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In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
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The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
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An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
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The pledge or surety thus given.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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A town with a municipal governing body, which sends a representative to parliament; a town or township with privileges of its own.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A corporate town; a town which sends a burgess to Parliament; borough-English, a customary descent of lands to the youngest son; boroughmonger, one who traffics in the patronage of parliamentary boroughs.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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