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borough
noun
[ ˈbʌrə ]
• a town or district which is an administrative unit.
Origin:
Old English burg, burh ‘fortress, citadel’, later ‘fortified town’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch burg and German Burg . Compare with burgh.