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BOROUGH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("borough" is a kind of...):
town; townsfolk; townspeople (the people living in a municipality smaller than a city)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "borough"):
burgh (a borough in Scotland)
pocket borough (a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family)
rotten borough (an English parliamentary constituency with few electors)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the administrative divisions of a large city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("borough" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Instance hyponyms:
Greenwich (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time)
City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)
Bronx; Brooklyn (a borough of New York City)
Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City)
Queens; Staten Island (a borough of New York City)
