Border City

proper noun

A hamlet on the border of the city of Geneva, Ontario County and the town of Waterloo, Seneca County, New York, United States; the name refers to the former Massachusetts-New York border.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A hamlet on the border of the city of Geneva, Ontario County and the town of Waterloo, Seneca County, New York, United States; the name refers to the former Massachusetts-New York border.
  2. A nickname for Carlisle, Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the border with Scotland.

    Rebuilt "Royal Scots" Nos. 46115, "Scots Guardsman" […] and 46105 "Cameron Highlander", at Carlisle Citadel Station, in April, 1949

    1949 November and December, “"Royal Scots" at the Border City”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered, frontispiece
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APA

Border City. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Border%20City

MLA

“Border City.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Border%20City. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Border City,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Border%20City.

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