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# borough

noun

«borough» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

201 uses in 36 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 198 of 201. By the class of the article: city 25, agglomeration 7, country 3, university 1. Most often with: «county», «city», «area», «have», «town».

### Examples

- Jenkintown (Abington's Jenkintown community abuts on three sides the smaller independent borough of Jenkintown) — [Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), sentence 29 («wiki:Abington\_Township,\_Montgomery\_County,\_Pennsylvania:29»)
- The borough of Bayreuth is divided into 39 districts: — [Bayreuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth), sentence 149 («wiki:Bayreuth:149»)
- The municipality of Bologna is subdivided into six administrative boroughs (quartieri), down from the former nine before the 2015 administrative reform. — [Bologna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna), sentence 133 («wiki:Bologna:133»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bayreuth»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bologna»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.