borough vs town

borough and town both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
borough	Yes	No	No	No
town	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, town is a hypernym of borough; that is, town is a word with a broader meaning than borough:

borough: an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
town: the people living in a municipality smaller than a city

Other hypernyms of borough include townsfolk, townspeople.

borough (noun)	town (noun)
one of the administrative divisions of a large city	the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament	an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
	an administrative division of a county