"Five Boroughs" meaning in English

See Five Boroughs in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: The Five Boroughs [canonical]
Etymology: From the organization of the City of New York into five boroughs, after the merger of (the now Manhattan) New York (City), New York (County), New York (State), with its surrounding cities. Head templates: {{en-proper-noun|head=The Five Boroughs}} The Five Boroughs
  1. (slang) Synonym of New York City Tags: slang Synonyms: New York City [synonym, synonym-of], 5 Boroughs
    Sense id: en-Five_Boroughs-en-name-GRdDxXm7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Five Boroughs meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From the organization of the City of New York into five boroughs, after the merger of (the now Manhattan) New York (City), New York (County), New York (State), with its surrounding cities.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "The Five Boroughs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "The Five Boroughs"
      },
      "expansion": "The Five Boroughs",
      "name": "en-proper-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of New York City"
      ],
      "id": "en-Five_Boroughs-en-name-GRdDxXm7",
      "links": [
        [
          "New York City",
          "New York City#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Synonym of New York City"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "New York City"
        },
        {
          "word": "5 Boroughs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Five Boroughs"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the organization of the City of New York into five boroughs, after the merger of (the now Manhattan) New York (City), New York (County), New York (State), with its surrounding cities.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "The Five Boroughs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "The Five Boroughs"
      },
      "expansion": "The Five Boroughs",
      "name": "en-proper-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of New York City"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "New York City",
          "New York City#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Synonym of New York City"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "New York City"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "5 Boroughs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Five Boroughs"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.