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"word": "Conwy County Borough"
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"word": "county borough"
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"word": "Denali Borough"
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"word": "Foxborough"
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"word": "Guysborough"
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"word": "Ketchikan Gateway Borough"
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"word": "metropolitan borough"
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"word": "nomination borough"
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"word": "Northwest Arctic Borough"
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"word": "outer borough"
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"word": "parliamentary borough"
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"word": "Petersburg Borough"
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"word": "pocket borough"
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"word": "rotten borough"
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"word": "royal borough"
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"expansion": "German Burg",
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"expansion": "Swedish borg",
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},
"expansion": "French bourg",
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},
"expansion": "Turkish burç",
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"3": "burgh",
"4": "Bury"
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"A fortified town."
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"(obsolete) A fortified town."
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"A town or city."
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"(rare) A town or city."
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"A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights."
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "administrative district",
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"word": "districte"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "鎮"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhèn",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "镇"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "區"
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{
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "qū",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "区"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "administrative district",
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"word": "borg"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "deelraad"
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"sense": "administrative district",
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"word": "concello"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "raioni",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "რაიონი"
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"roman": "olki",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "ოლქი"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "mxare",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "მხარე"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "administrative district",
"tags": [
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"word": "Bezirk"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "administrative district",
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"word": "Gemeinde"
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"word": "Burg"
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"sense": "administrative district",
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"word": "brí"
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"roman": "ku",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "区"
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"roman": "gu",
"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "구"
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"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "börch"
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"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "administrative district",
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"word": "Borch"
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"word": "burgh"
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"code": "sw",
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"sense": "administrative district",
"word": "manispaa"
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"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."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìzhìshì",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "自治市"
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"word": "arrondissement"
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ubani",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "უბანი"
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{
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"code": "de",
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"word": "Stadtbezirk"
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"word": "𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃"
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"alt": "自治區",
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"roman": "jachigu",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "자치구"
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"word": "о́пштина"
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"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "Burch"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "górod",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "го́род"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "municipal borough",
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"word": "bre"
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{
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"code": "es",
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "borg"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "município"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "concelho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "distrito"
},
{
"code": "gmw-rfr",
"lang": "Rhine Franconian",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "Burch"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "górod",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"word": "го́род"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bre"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "municipio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "concejo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "borg"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "municipal borough",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bwrdeistref"
}
],
"word": "borough"
}
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