Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 15 compound words that contain boroughs. The most common are listed below. Open boroughs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- Five BoroughsSynonym of New York City: The largest city in the United States, situated in the state of New York at the mouth of the Hudson River on the northeastern Atlantic Coast.
- county boroughsplural of county borough: A borough (or town), in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, whose government is independent of its local county council.
- metropolitan boroughsplural of metropolitan borough: A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough.
- municipal boroughsplural of municipal borough: A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors.
- outer boroughsplural of outer borough: One of the boroughs of New York City excluding Manhattan (the boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island).
- pocket boroughsplural of pocket borough: A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he …
- rotten boroughsplural of rotten borough: A parliamentary borough that was represented in Parliament although the number of voters had diminished so greatly that they were largely controlled by the main landowner; such boroughs were abolished in the 19th …
- royal boroughsplural of royal borough: A borough, currently only in England, which has been granted a royal charter.
- close boroughsplural of close borough: A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could …
- nomination boroughsplural of nomination borough: A rotten borough or pocket borough.
Compound words 15
- Brokenboroughsplural of Brokenborough: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST918892).
- Cheeseboroughsplural of Cheeseborough: A surname.
- Desboroughsplural of Desborough: A town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Kettering borough (OS grid ref SP8083).
- Disboroughsplural of Disborough: A surname from Old English.
- Gainsboroughsplural of Gainsborough: A surname.
- Goldsboroughsplural of Goldsborough: A village and civil parish (served by Goldsborough and Flaxby Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE3856).
- harboroughsplural of harborough: Standard spelling of harbor.
- headboroughsplural of headborough: Synonym of tithingman, the head of a tithing.
- Risboroughsplural of Risborough: A surname from Old English.
- Rosboroughsplural of Rosborough: A surname.