Carrboro

English

Etymology

Named for North Carolina industrialist Julian Carr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.boʊɹ/
• nonstandard: IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.bɪɹ.oʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊɹ

Proper noun

Carrboro (uncountable)

1. A town in Orange County, North Carolina.
   • 2019, “Carrboro”, in Visit Chapel Hill‎^[1], Orange County Visitors Bureau:

     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.