BOROUGHS

Meaning of BOROUGHS in English

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Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005

BOROUGHS — Городки
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BOROUGHS — Городки
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NEW YORK CITY — City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River . The largest city in the …
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LONDON — I City (pop., 2001: metro area, 432,451), southeastern Ontario. It lies on the Thames River, near several of the Great …
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GREATER MANCHESTER — Metropolitan county (pop., 2001: 2,482,352), northwestern England, one of the major conurbations of the country. It consists of the cities …
Английский словарь Британика
LONDON — /lun"deuhn/ , n. 1. Jack , 1876-1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist. 2. a metropolis in SE England, on the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
INTERBOROUGH — /in"teuhr berr'oh, -bur'oh/ , adj. 1. between boroughs. 2. of, pertaining to, or located in two or more boroughs. n. …
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TALLAGE — in medieval Europe, a tax imposed by the lord of an estate upon his unfree tenants. In origin, both the …
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BURGAGE — in England and Scotland, an ancient form of tenure that applied to property within the boundaries of boroughs, or burghs. …
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BOROUGH — in Great Britain, incorporated town with special privileges or a district entitled to elect a member of Parliament. The medieval …
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YORK — town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S., situated at the mouth of the York River on the Atlantic Ocean, 43 miles …
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WEST YORKSHIRE — metropolitan county of northern England, comprising five metropolitan boroughs: Calderdale, Kirklees, and the city of Bradford in the west and …
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WEST MIDLANDS — metropolitan county of England, comprising seven metropolitan boroughs: the city of Birmingham (England's second largest city), the city of Coventry, …
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WARWICKSHIRE — administrative and historic county of England, in the Midlands region. As an administrative and geographic unit the county dates from …
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TYNE AND WEAR — metropolitan county in northeastern England. Named for its two main rivers, the Tyne and the Wear, it is bounded by …
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SURREY — administrative and historic county of southeastern England, just southwest of London, adjoining the River Thames. The county consists of lowland …
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STAFFORDSHIRE — administrative, geographic, and historic county in the Midlands of west-central England, extending north from the Birmingham metropolitan area. The administrative, …
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SOUTH YORKSHIRE — metropolitan county in north-central England. It comprises four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and the city of Sheffield. South Yorkshire …
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REFORM BILL — any of the British parliamentary bills that became acts in 1832, 1867, and 188485, and which expanded the electorate for …
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE — administrative, geographic, and historic county of the East Midlands of England, bordered by the geographic counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and …
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MIDDLESEX — county, east-central New Jersey, U.S., bounded by the Millstone River to the southwest, the Raritan River to the northwest, the …
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LANCASHIRE — administrative, geographic, and historic county in northwestern England, bounded on the north by Cumberland and Westmorland (in the present administrative …
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KENT — administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying along the English Channel at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. A …
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GREATER MANCHESTER — metropolitan county in northwestern England. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country and comprises 10 metropolitan …
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GREATER LONDON — Skyline of London from the Golden Gallery above the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, looking 1/4 metropolitan county of southeastern …
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ENGLAND — predominant country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It occupies more than half the island of …
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METROPOLITAN — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a metropolitan area (= a very large city ) ▪ major metropolitan areas such as …
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COUNTY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a county court (= a local court ) a town/city/county jail ▪ He was held …
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BOROUGH — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES borough council COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE inner ▪ There is, too, a grant to …
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POTHOOKS AND HANGEKS — A scrawl, bad writing. POT-WABBLERS. Persons entitled to vote for members of parliament in certain boroughs, from having boiled their …
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