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Answer for the clue "Borough in NW London ", 5 letters:
brent

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Word definitions for brent in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward [syn: brant , brant goose , brent goose ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brant \Brant\ (br[a^]nt), n. [Cf. Brand goose , Brent , Brenicle .] (Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose ( Branta bernicla ) -- called also brent and brand goose . The name is also applied to other related species.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 22257 Housing Units (2000): 7796 Land area (2000): 10.437340 sq. miles (27.032585 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.087407 sq. miles (0.226384 sq. km) Total area (2000): 10.524747 sq. miles (27.258969 sq. km) FIPS code: 08300 Located within: ...

Usage examples of brent.

Brent found himself easily drawn into conversation on the merits of alizarin crimson and the influence of Byzantine art on Renaissance Italy.

For glaunsing ee, or brow so brent, Or cheek with rose and lilye blent, Me lists not ficht with the.

Crabs in the gullies, fish in the creeks, curlew and redshank and brent geese fly here every winter all the way from Siberia.

Here I made make my campe with the rampyres thereof reachynge to the schore of the salt se baithe befoare and behynde of me, and drew in supplies and brent and slawe and sent forth hoarsmen to bryng mee in intelligence.

Salka, Green Men, Small Lights, and Beaconfolk who haunted the place in prehistoric times, High Blenholme was shunned by Continental explorers and would-be settlers until the mighty invasion fleet of Bazekoy the Great sailed into Cala Bay, and he himself planted his standard at the mouth of the River Brent.

If given a choice of spending the evening with Brent and his crowd or being abused by the dadaists, Indy would be hard pressed to choose.

I kept Brent with Penny and Michaelis looked after Gillian, leaving two to do the legwork.

Ogilvie now and ask him to retrieve Brent and Michaelis from wherever the hell they are nowthey can have the other two beds here.

Brent, Fuller and the Norths had been doing the evening and night before.

She seemed always to be asleep, and never really was, and was, it had turned out, an old and close friend of Claire Brent, although the Norths had never known it until recently.

Alexander felt that she had been unneighborly, but in her memory the things that Brent had said to her had become a sort of troublesome refrain.

Prosecutor Brent Davis, citing pending appeals in the West Memphis murder case, declined to be interviewed for this book.

Yet saugh I brent the shippes hoppesteres, The hunte strangled with the wilde beres, The sowe freten the child right in the cradel, The cook yscalded, for al his longe ladel.

Brent was connected to the Blacktail, and the driller's gossip pointed a finger, but Anna had no way of putting Frieda into the picture.

The Brents and Joyce were familiar enough with the place not to need a guiding hand.