Burrow vs Borough - What's the difference?
burrow | borough |
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
A mound.
An incorporated town.
(Webster 1913)
(obsolete) A fortified town.
(rare) A town or city.
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
(historical, British, legal) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
(historical, British, legal) The pledge or surety thus given.
As nouns the difference between burrow and borough
is that burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature while borough is a fortified town.As a verb burrow
is to dig a tunnel or hole.As a proper noun Borough is
the area, properly called Southwark, just south of London Bridge.burrow
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(en noun)- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.
borough
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Alternative forms
* boroNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
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