borough vs townspeople

borough and townspeople both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of borough include town, townsfolk.

borough (noun)	townspeople (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