The area, properly called Southwark, just south of London Bridge, which is at the north end of Borough High Street (OS grid ref TQ3279).

(obsolete) A fortified town. / (rare) A town or city. / A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights. / An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.

plural of borough

Placename suffix, indicated site of a fortified place. / Placename suffix, indicating a borough.

(US, historical) prolific formation of new boroughs in the state of New Jersey in the 1890s

(UK) A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough.

(law, UK, obsolete) patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child

A city or other place which acts as the center of government for a borough in Alaska, in the United States.

(Britain) A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors.

(historical) A borough that was represented in Parliament although it had very few voters.