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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A town and civil parish with a town council in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1969).
2. 2
   Marlborough College
3. 3
   A dukedom in the British peerage.
4. 4
   A region, an and former province of the South Island, New Zealand.
5. 5
   A territorial authority in New Zealand, more or less contiguous with the region; in full, Marlborough District.

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6. 6
   A rural town and locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
7. 7
   A neighbourhood in north-east Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
8. 8
   A place in the United States:; A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
9. 9
   A place in the United States:; A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
10. 10
    A place in the United States:; A village in St. Louis County, Missouri.
11. 11
    A place in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire,
12. 12
    A place in the United States:; A town in Ulster County, New York, named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
13. 13
    A place in the United States:; A township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Etymology

From marl + -borough.

Related phrases

East MarlboroughMarlborough SoundsNew Marlboroughnew zealandsouth island

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