Borough

Alternative forms

 * boro

Etymology
burh:, from Germanic *burgs. Cognate with Dutch burg, German Burg, Swedish borg, Persian bur.

Noun

 * 1)  A fortified town; a town or city.
 * 2) A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
 * 3) An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
 * 6) A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.

Derived terms

 * -borough
 * municipal borough
 * parliamentary borough

Related terms

 * burgh

Thesaurus
Kreis, Stadt, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, bishopric, boom town, bourg, burg, burgh, canton, city, close borough, commune, congressional district, constablewick, conurbation, county, departement, diocese, district, duchy, election district, electoral district, electorate, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, gerrymander, gerrymandered district, ghost town, government, greater city, hamlet, hundred, magistracy, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, oblast, okrug, outskirts, parish, pocket borough, polis, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, rotten borough, safe district, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, silk-stocking district, single-member district, soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburbia, swing district, territory, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville, wapentake, ward

Translations

 * Dutch: deelraad
 * German: ,


 * Russian:


 * French:
 * German: Stadtbezirk,
 * Russian: город, имеющий самоуправление (górod, iméjuščij samoupravlénije)


 * Spanish: ,