borough-townn.

Forms: see borough n.

Etymology: < borough n. + town n. Compare Old English burhtún enclosure surrounding a castle (as in the place-name Burton).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈborough-town.

archaic.

A town which is a borough. Cf. burrows-town n. (Scottish).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough

burrows-townc1175

mayor-town1375

boroughc1380

borough-town1382

burghc1425

corporate town1478

royal burgh1591

county borough1708

municipality1790

Royal Borough1805

county1888

c1000 Woman's Lament (Gr.) 31 Sindon burgtunas breruin beweaxne.]

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. vii. 2 Of the burȝtown [a1425 L.V. the citee] Bethel.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 112 Hit ys noȝt semly..in cyte ne in borwton Þat vsurers oþer regratours..Be fraunchised for a free man.1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. 288 Thurgh every Cyte and good Burgh tounes in Englond.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iv. xxii. 88 One burrough towne of Romane Cittizens.1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 67 Edenborough..was but a Burrough Town within the Diocess of the Arch-Bishop of Saint Andrews.1839 B. P. Capper Topogr. Dict. 1052 Wexford, a seaport..shire, assize, and borough town.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	borough-town
释义	borough-townn. Forms: see borough n. Etymology: < borough n. + town n. Compare Old English burhtún enclosure surrounding a castle (as in the place-name Burton).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈborough-town. archaic. A town which is a borough. Cf. burrows-town n. (Scottish). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough burrows-townc1175 mayor-town1375 boroughc1380 borough-town1382 burghc1425 corporate town1478 royal burgh1591 county borough1708 municipality1790 Royal Borough1805 county1888 c1000 Woman's Lament (Gr.) 31 Sindon burgtunas breruin beweaxne.] 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. vii. 2 Of the burȝtown [a1425 L.V. the citee] Bethel.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 112 Hit ys noȝt semly..in cyte ne in borwton Þat vsurers oþer regratours..Be fraunchised for a free man.1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. 288 Thurgh every Cyte and good Burgh tounes in Englond.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iv. xxii. 88 One burrough towne of Romane Cittizens.1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 67 Edenborough..was but a Burrough Town within the Diocess of the Arch-Bishop of Saint Andrews.1839 B. P. Capper Topogr. Dict. 1052 Wexford, a seaport..shire, assize, and borough town. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1382
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