1A line separating two political or geographical areas, especially countries.

1. 1.1 A district near a line separating two political or geographical areas.
   a refugee camp on the border

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Interfax also reported that four Russian soldiers were killed and two injured in a helicopter crash on the border of Chechnya and the neighbouring Russian region of Dagestan.
   • Families line up at a refugee camp near Bahai on the border between Chad and Sudan.
   • A large number had to flee from their villages due to shelling on the border.
   • Yet the ceremony, which signified the peaceful transfer of control from Nigeria to Cameroon of this one village nestled on the border, was truly remarkable.
   • Nevertheless, this town situated on the border between former slave and free states became the nation's chief site for remembering the Civil War.
   • We lived in a shabby hut at the foot of a steep mountain on the border of Manchuria near the Yalu River.
   • There are vast stretches of land on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan that don't have roads.
   • Until then, these vehicles had been waiting in the so-called No Man's Land, the strip of land on the border between Iraq and Jordan.
   • A certain confusion arises with artists living in cities on the border between the two parts of the Netherlands as to whether they form part of Dutch or Flemish art.
   • Meanwhile, Eliza is taken to a Quaker settlement on the border of the slave states where she meets up with George, her husband.
   • In 1991, he worked in an Iranian hospital on the border of Iran and Iraq, assisting refugees.
   • The picturesque and historic village of Attanagh is located near Durrow on the border with Kilkenny.
   • As Clonaslee is on the border of the county and there is no public transport serving it or the villages on route to towns it is seen as a starting point for transport.
   • It's set at a refugee camp on the border of Turkey and Iraq, where hordes of parentless children earn money clearing land mines.
   • All the time now, the conflict spills over into our territory because much of the border with us is controlled by the guerrillas.
   • Zubeida Malik reports from Jalozai refugee camp on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
   • About 100,000 Baptists and other refugees occupy a small plot of land on the border of Burma and Thailand, near the Thai city of Maesot.
   • There was no one else to see us off; Myren and her children had already made it safely to one of the K'ymaeli villages on the border.
   • My good friend Johnny, living as he does on the border of both counties, is so blessed but somehow or other I feel our little bet on the outcome will help to dampen his spirits when the final whistle blows.

   Synonyms

   surroundings, surrounding area, vicinity

2The edge or boundary of something, or the part near it.

3A band or strip, especially a decorative one, around the edge of something.

1. 3.1 A strip of ground along the edge of a lawn or path for planting flowers or shrubs.
   the garden borders are planted with perennials

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In the warm months, it was a garden, with hothouse-grown flowers planted along its borders.
   • Freshen beds and borders planted with spring flowers by lightly forking over the surface.
   • Under his direction, they built dry-stone retaining walls and a rock garden, laid out paths and mixed borders and planted flowering shrubs among the trees.
   • Plant them in borders, under shrubs, in the eye of a tree, or in grassland and watch them multiply over the years.
   • In other news we have finished digging two flower borders and have planted one up but got some left to do in the shady one.
   • Perennials can be planted among shrub borders or in containers.
   • These were well presented with good use of open lawns, well manicured shrubs and flower borders.
   • When we think of shrubs, most of us picture foundation plants or a shrub border.
   • Even back in my days as a horticultural hooligan, I only ever used peat to create a home-made compost for sowing seeds, never for potting plantlets or decorating borders.
   • The awful thing is that they are all perfectly acceptable names for the same old-fashioned and rather modest little half-hardy perennial plant that used to be seen in garden flower borders all over.
   • The grass was exactly level with the white rock-like borders around the edges, that were maybe twenty feet wide.
   • The maples planted in the grassy border along the street were growing too large for their confinement, their roots buckling the uniform gray slabs of the sidewalk.
   • Shrubs, perennials, and grasses pack most of the border between screen plants and the lawn.
   • More upright varieties are handsome in shrub borders or, planted 3 or 4 feet apart, as an informal hedge.
   • When planting bulbs in flower borders, mark where they are so you don't dig them up later by mistake.
   • The 165-foot long back garden is mainly in lawn with extensive borders and flower beds.
   • If you're new to gardening, planting a flower border may seem intimidating—a job best left to professionals with lots of experience.
   • Hydrangeas are spectacular grown as single specimens and are fabulous when planted in mixed shrub borders.
   • I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
   • There are a number of shrubs and plants around the borders of the garden.

   Synonyms

   plot, area, piece, strip, row, lot, tract, parcel

1Form an edge along or beside (something)

1. 1.1 (of a country or area) be adjacent to (another country or area)
   regions bordering Azerbaijan

   no object the park is east of San Diego, bordering on Mexico

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Partly through financial aid, partly by the exertion of tremendous pressure, countries bordering the EU have been forced to step up measures against asylum-seekers.
   • To the north and northwest, the country borders the Sudan, to the south, Ethiopia, and to the southwest, Djibouti.
   • Their grazing areas also border a National Park.
   • Fish are an essential part of the diet for all the countries bordering the Mekong after it flows out of China.
   • Moreover, Afghanistan is a landlocked nation bordering China, Iran and three Central Asian countries.
   • He and ‘his men’ are ordered to handle a protest at the American Embassy in Yemen, a Middle Eastern country bordering Saudi Arabia.
   • Initial infestations tend to occur in fields bordering clover fields or grassy areas.
   • Day one is spent totally over the mountain ridges and tops from which there are spectacular views of the surrounding peaks and lower country bordering Nelson Lakes National Park.
   • But the treaty obliges countries bordering enclosed or semi-enclosed seas to work together on marine conservation and environmental protection.
   • Tajikistan is the third former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan.
   • The countries bordering the Baltic Sea, for example, were in the front line during the Cold War.
   • These new coal-fired plants are frequently sited in remote regions that border national parks or other protected wilderness areas.
   • One could object that the countries bordering the Alps are richer and more expensive.
   • The area borders the Dales and already has one of the highest concentrations of millionaires in the country.
   • The stalky marshland plants huddle in dense bunches on uncultivated areas bordering South Florida's sugar farms.
   • It's a topic that's becoming more widely discussed and Tandou farm at Menindee is kicking things off with the plan to create a 50,000 hectare conservation area bordering Kinchega National Park.
   • He also said the report had not included a proper assessment of the visual impact of windfarm developments on areas bordering the highlighted zones.
   • Indonesia has more than 90 small islands in areas bordering neighboring countries.
   • Successful conservation efforts in an area bordering another country can be reduced to naught if the neighbouring countries do not collaborate.
   • The study site was located within an old field bordering a recreational park in Ashford, Connecticut, USA.

   Synonyms

   adjoin, abut, abut on, bound on, butt up against, be adjacent to, lie next to, neighbour, be contiguous with, touch, join, connect, meet, reach, extend as far as
2. 1.2border onno object Be close to an extreme condition.
   Sam arrived in a state of excitement bordering on hysteria

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   • The barista announces each one in a ceremonial style that borders on the religious and in a language only fully understood by true initiates.
   • That aside, though, the language used here borders on kneejerk.
   • Her performance, which is incredibly endearing, borders on the miraculous.
   • He approaches the game with a passion and enthusiasm which can border on the childlike.
   • On the other hand, you see this fundamentalism that sort of borders on extremism.
   • Quality Control gets points for originality though, and not the kind that borders on gimmick to hold it all together.
   • But the real problems are a static production and the script, which borders on the theatrically illiterate.
   • The first half is painfully slow and borders on ridiculous in some parts.
   • What this creates, then, is teacher dominance that borders on dictatorship.
   • Her behavior borders on the grossly unethical, reporting lie after lie to serve her friends.
   • I think it borders on the fawning, but provides a useful portrait nonetheless.
   • For them, the settling of scores with the miners developed into an obsession bordering on the deranged.
   • In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
   • His approach bordered on the mechanical, yet he executed a free and extended armswing.
   • The digital video work looks a little rough here and there and the action borders on farce, but Tadpole has plenty of fun and sent me out of the cinema smiling.
   • This album happens to be progressive, evolving into a unique form of punk that borders on grunge.
   • What Johnny Nevin and Johnny Kavanagh have been asked to do, as amateurs, in recent weeks borders on cruelty.
   • In the four men, this precision borders on caricature, although Abby comes across with strong humanity.
   • Personally, I have a news habit that possibly borders on obsession.
   • Its style borders on the eccentric: all heirlooms and portraits of sinister-looking forefathers.

   Synonyms

   verge on, approach, come close to, come near to, be near to, be comparable to, approximate to, be tantamount to, be not dissimilar to, be not unlike, be similar to, resemble, look like
3. 1.3usually be bordered with Provide (something) with a decorative edge.
   a curving driveway bordered with chrysanthemums

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The driveway was dirt with large rocks bordering it, decorating it a bit.
   • Trying to be inconspicuous, for reasons unbeknownst to her, she looked past Shamus to the writing all over his walls, trying to read the words bordering them.
   • The white picket fences were gone but were replaced with bricks and decorative stones that bordered the colorful flower beds.
   • The silver stripes bordering the ribbon and the centre stripe are 2 mm wide.
   • The variable widths given in the details under 'Description' depend on how many horizontal stripes bordering the pattern are used.
   • Attractive stone and brick walls border the garden, and it has pedestrian access to Mount Pleasant Avenue.
   • There was a fireplace against one wall that was bordered with bricks and near it were several comfortable looking seats that surrounded it.
   • Curves, like waves breaking, had been worked into the sides, accented by the gilt-covered scrolls that bordered the edges.
   • A single set of cutout elements can be securely identified as belonging to a band bordering the bottom edge.
   • Your flag design looks a bit wrong; the two stripes bordering the bottom part are actually three.
   • The cuff bracelet in Plate XX is ornamented with chrysanthemums bordering a central faceted citrine and overlapping pinnatifid leaves engraved to delineate the veins.
   • You feel as if you're walking on water thanks to a clever ensemble of video footage of waterfalls on the wall and platforms of water at shoulder-level bordering the pathway.
   • It also includes a patio area which borders the conservatory and provides a perfect spot for outdoor dining.
   • The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort.
   • He stopped before a full-length mirror that was set up against one wall, bordering a tall wardrobe.
   • For example, on concrete frame buildings with in-filled masonry walls, the frame borders the top, bottom, and sides of the masonry walls.
   • Red and yellow tulips decorated the porch, while white daffodils bordered the lawn to the walkway.
   • The manuscripts can be taken as beautiful pieces of calligraphy, often illustrated and bordered with decorative motifs, so much so that each folio became a fine piece of art.
   • This wall pattern is then bordered with a lassoed Wild West lacing crafted out of human hair, an element common to her art.
   • The gravelled driveway at the front is bordered by flowerbeds and provides parking for two cars.

   Synonyms

   edge, fringe, hem