borough
noun/ˈbʌroʊ/
Frequency rank: #5,151 most common English word
Meaning
a town or district that has its own local government, or one of the administrative divisions of a large city.
Example sentence
She grew up in the Brooklyn borough, one of the five divisions of New York City.
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