Usually means: Administrative division in some cities.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. borough: Merriam-Webster
  2. borough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. borough: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. borough: Collins English Dictionary
  5. borough: Vocabulary.com
  6. borough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Borough, -borough, borough: Wiktionary
  8. borough: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. borough: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. borough: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Borough, borough: Dictionary.com
  12. borough: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. borough: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Borough (Alaska), Borough (Connecticut), Borough (New Jersey), Borough (New York City), Borough (Pennsylvania), Borough (United States), Borough, The Borough (George Crabbe poem), The Borough (poem), The Borough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Borough: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. borough: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. borough: Rhymezone
  18. Borough: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. borough: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. borough: FreeDictionary.org
  21. borough: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. borough: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Borough, borough: Wordnik
  24. borough: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BOROUGH: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. borough: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Borough, borough: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. borough: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borough, The Borough: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Borough: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A fortified town.
noun:  (rare) A town or city.
noun:  A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
noun:  An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
noun:  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.
noun:  Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
noun:  A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
noun:  (historical, British, law) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
noun:  The area, properly called Southwark, just south of London Bridge, which is at the north end of Borough High Street (OS grid ref TQ3279).

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