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boroughhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From borough + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a borough
    • Hmm, 'Park Slope, New York' again. That's two votes for Park Slope boroughhood. Message to residents of Cobble Hill, New York: get with it! 1988 April, the Editor, Spy Magazine, page 23:
    • The Gazette began before boroughhood and has continued along successive decades. 1922, George Thornton Flemming, History of Pittsburgh and its Environs, page 348:
    • In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic. 1850, Catherine Grace Frances, The Hamiltons, or, Official life in 1830, page 353: