borough

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌ.ɹə/    美 /ˈbʌɹ.oʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fortified town. obsolete
  2. A town or city. rare
  3. A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
  4. An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
    — 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
  7. A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
  8. An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other. UK,historical

词形变化

boroughs plural boro alternative,US bourg alternative,obsolete burough alternative,obsolete burrow alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
-boro -borough Boroughbridge borough council borough English Borough Green borough hall boroughholder boroughhood boroughitis boroughmaster boroughmonger borough seat boroughwide Brookeborough close borough Conwy County Borough county borough Denali Borough Foxborough Guysborough interborough Ketchikan Gateway Borough Marlborough Martinborough metropolitan borough multiborough municipal borough nomination borough Northwest Arctic Borough outer borough parliamentary borough Peterborough Petersburg Borough pocket borough rotten borough royal borough The Borough triborough Tyngsborough Woodborough
相关词
Brough burg burgh -bury

词源

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.
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