a town in S England, in Wiltshire: besieged and captured by Royalists in the Civil War (1642); site of Marlborough College, a public school founded in 1843. Pop: 7713 (2001)
Marlborough in British English2
(ˈmɑːlbərə, -brə, ˈmɔːl-)
noun
1st Duke of. title of John Churchill. 1650–1722, English general; commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), in which he won victories at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), Oudenaarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709)
Marlborough in American English
(ˈmɑrlˌbɜroʊ; mɑrlbɜrə; British ˈmɔlbərə)
1st Duke of(John Churchill) 1650-1722; Eng. general & statesman