boroughbo‧rough /ˈbʌrə $ -roʊ/ noun [countable] 
Word Origin
the borough of Queens in New York City Lambeth Borough Council
Word OriginWORD ORIGINborough
ExamplesOrigin:
Old English burg ‘castle, town defended by a wall’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- the borough of Brooklyn in New York City
- A spokesman for the borough engineer's department said the matter would be looked into.
- Bimpson recognised a business opportunity when he discovered that the government had secured domain names for all the schools in his borough.
- Croydon is indeed a borough fortunate in its parliamentary representation.
- Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.
- I walk the boundaries of the borough every day and I have dowsed these lines many times.
- Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing, longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.
- The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.
WORD SETS► Geography
Collocationsabyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► inner
a town, or part of a large city, that is responsible for managing its own schools, hospitals, roads etc: · There is, too, a grant to assist inner London boroughs taking on education powers.· New legislation may allow inner London boroughs to take over education, perhaps on a piecemeal basis.· The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs.· Between 1971-8 and 1978-84 the largest upward shifts in rates of population change all occurred in Inner London boroughs.
► metropolitan· And riders are also being asked to tell council leaders what they need in Britain's biggest metropolitan borough, Doncaster.· Sixty years later Camberwell was a metropolitan borough whose population had multiplied more than six fold to 259,339.· The metropolitan boroughs also vary in size with a minimum near 200,000.· Somewhat more of a variation occurs if we examine the eight capped metropolitan boroughs.· Of the 19 LEAs involved, 12 were metropolitan boroughs and 7 were counties.· London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs, which in turn spent more than county authorities.
► rotten· In fact they became the rotten boroughs of later centuries.
NOUN► council· The borough council recognises that its newer cemeteries such as Acklam and Thorntree are in need of attention.· The park, once the home of the Gladstone family, has been given over by the borough council.· District and borough councils will become wholly responsible for cleaning all roads except motorways.· Darlington borough council is to be approached for a donation.· The borough council publication centres on the City Challenge scheme and the Environment City award.· A year later he switched to Labour, and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council.
► councillor· A recent report by borough councillor and community health council chairwoman Eleanor Young made the point clearly.· And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade.· The Sainsbury plans have received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site.· In Great Britain there are some 20,650 district and borough councillors and some 4,100 county, regional and islands councillors.· Darlington borough councillors heard the two-storey extension at Walworth Castle Hotel would not affect the ancient part of the building.
► county· This was followed by the Local Government Act 1888 which established county councils and county borough councils.· The three main county boroughs were to be retained and five counties were to replace the existing thirteen.· First, there is the problem of the former county boroughs.· Counties and county boroughs became responsible for child care under the 1948 Children Act.· The county comprised four districts based on city regions surrounding the former county boroughs of Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.· They were to become boroughs with the status of counties - or county boroughs.· Among county boroughs the range was also extreme: Canterbury had only 33,000 souls while Birmingham had 1. 1 million citizens.· Middlesbrough had been joined with five neighbouring local authorities to form the county borough of Teesside.
the borough of Queens in New York City Lambeth Borough Council