Borough vs. Township

Boroughnoun

(obsolete) A fortified town.

Boroughnoun

(rare) A town or city.

Boroughnoun

A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.

Boroughnoun

An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.

Boroughnoun

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.

Boroughnoun

Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.

Boroughnoun

A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.

Boroughnoun

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.

Boroughnoun

The pledge or surety thus given.

Boroughnoun

In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Boroughnoun

The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

Boroughnoun

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

Boroughnoun

one of the administrative divisions of a large city

Boroughnoun

an English town that forms the constituency of a member of Parliament

Borough

A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.

Townshipnoun

The territory of a town.

Townshipnoun

a subdivision of a county.

Townshipnoun

An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.

Townshipnoun

A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.

Townshipnoun

a small town.

Townshipnoun

The district or territory of a town.

Townshipnoun

In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.

Townshipnoun

In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.

Townshipnoun

an administrative division of a county;

Township

A township is some kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. While the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule.