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A fortress that grew up and started collecting rent and parking tickets.
means A town or district that governs at least some of its own affairs — in modern use, an administrative subdivision of a city or region, like the five boroughs of New York or the boroughs of London.
from From Old English 'burh' (also 'burg'), meaning a fortified place or stronghold — the same root that fortifies place-names ending in -borough, -burgh, and -bury. It's a Germanic word, a cousin of German 'Burg' (castle) and likely related to the verb meaning 'to shelter or protect.' The thread runs from defended hilltop, to walled town, to chartered town with rights and privileges, to the bureaucratic district it names today — the fortress, as the essence says, having traded its walls for paperwork.
- root word
- From Old English burh, meaning fortified town
- new york
- Five of them, each big enough to be a city
- rotten boroughs
- Tiny English seats once sold to the rich
- alaska
- Calls its counties boroughs instead
- global twins
- Burg, burgh, and bury all share the bloodline
manhattan — new york city borough, most populous with 1.6 million residents
brooklyn — new york city borough, largest by area, 2.6 million residents
southwark — london borough on the south bank of the thames since medieval times
stockport — greater manchester borough, historic market town 10 miles south of manchester