Borough is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOROUGH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an incorporated town, also BRUGH
• a town or district which is an administrative unit.
• a town (as distinct from a city) with a corporation and privileges granted by a royal charter.
• a town sending representatives to Parliament.
• an administrative division of London.
• a municipal corporation in certain US states.
• each of five divisions of New York City.
• (in Alaska) a district corresponding to a county elsewhere in the US.
• town or district with its own council
• 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.
• The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
• An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
• The pledge or surety thus given.
• one of the administrative divisions of a large city
• an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament

Words related to BOROUGH

boroughs14

Words that contain BOROUGH

boroughs14 farborough19 yarborough19 farboroughs20 headborough21 tharborough20 yarboroughs20 headboroughs22 interborough18 tharboroughs21 thirdborough22 thirdboroughs23 interboroughs19

How to use BOROUGH in a sentence

• A newly purchased borough of his sent up an address flaming with patriotism, and it was presented by his own hands.
• It would be their sad and regrettable lot to have before them a fellow-townsman whose family had for generations occupied a foremost position in the life of the borough.
• The gradual encroachments of that irresistible power had in the course of two centuries buried a large portion of the ancient Borough beneath the waves.
• He dismounted into a faint yellow fog diluted with a faint twilight, in the Brown Borough.
• At any rate, the Brown Borough is peopled with babies young and old, and high minds and grown-up institutions are apt to look over heads.
• She was tired because she had been up all night among distressed friends in the Brown Borough.
• Surely there are no tears in the world any more, and no Brown Borough, and no War.
• Great Bedwyn was once a Parliamentary borough and, in more remote times still, a town of importance.
• In this room annual entertainments are given by the mayor, and public meetings for the borough are convened.
• One of her pupils, for instance, was a gentleman in the fruit and potato line, in the Borough.
• Morpeth, Lord, afterwards sixth Earl of Carlisle, see Howard, George Morpeth, borough of Musgrave, Dr.
• The County Council may also arrange with any Borough Council or Urban District Council to act as its agent in providing and managing small holdings.
• The parliamentary borough, which includes the parish of Hove, returns two members.
• The houses would grow fewer, thinning out, but before the gap became real, the outskirts of the next borough would be reached.
• The whigs, however, obtained the victory, as they included the monied-interest, which will always prevail among the borough electors.
• A variety of amendments on the clause fixing the qualification of borough electors at ten pounds was moved by Mr.
• Hume moved in the house of commons, that the issuing of the writ for the borough of Stafford should be suspended till ten days after the next meeting of parliament.
• No city is more easy to be lost in, and Brooklyn is at all times full of people from across the river, who ask the way to Borough Hall.
• He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.
• Later on, the Lords added two citizens from each city, and two burgesses from each borough.
• He had been returned for the Borough of Rutsford for many years, without opposition.
• He was returned for the borough of Rutsford, and his fame as an able and eloquent orator spread over the country.
• On the following day we go to the poll at Gyoengyoes, a borough which is to send me to Parliament.
• Quickly as possible my father started in pursuit, and reached West Chester only to learn that the carriage had driven through the borough at full speed, about half an hour before.
• The borough of Columbia, situated on its eastern bank, in the county of Lancaster, was the great depot where the fugitives from Virginia and Maryland first landed.
• That system, however, already exists in parts of England, and more especially in the Metropolis, and in the Borough of Southwark.
• A borough named in this Schedule shall not for the purposes of this Schedule form part of any other constituency.

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