Meanings
proper nounCarrboro (uncountable)
- uncountableA town in Orange County, North Carolina.
With a population of just under 20,000 Carrboro is the kind of small southern town where the past and the present seem to have been fused into a single moment until it’s no longer one time or the other.
2019, “Carrboro”, in Visit Chapel Hill, Orange County Visitors Bureau
Origin
Named for North Carolina industrialist Julian Carr.
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APA
Carrboro. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carrboro
MLA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Carrboro,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carrboro.
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