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boroughhood

noun

Etymology

From borough + -hood.

  1. inherited from *burgz✻ — “stronghold, city”
  2. inherited from *burg✻
  3. inherited from burh
  4. inherited from borwe
  5. suffixed as boroughhood — “borough + hood”

Definitions

  1. The state of being a borough

    • In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic.
    • The Gazette began before boroughhood and has continued along successive decades.
    • Hmm, 'Park Slope, New York' again. That's two votes for Park Slope boroughhood. Message to residents of Cobble Hill, New York: get with it!

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA