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noun bɔːnbʊənbɔrn dialect A small stream, especially one that flows intermittently or seasonally. Example sentencesExamples - One of the many good touches in this book is its linguistic bent, as in the explanation of tilth and bourn, farming terms carried as baggage to the American Utopia.
- The bourns are its arteries.
- But it seems likely that all sorcery will vanish with the bourns.
- I-I-I don't get you, he says thickly, in a stuttered upper-pitch that probably succeeds in shaving a bourne of phlegm off his wind-pipe.
Synonyms brook, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet
Origin Middle English: southern English variant of burn2. Rhymes adorn, born, borne, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn nounbɔːnbʊənbɔrn literary 1A limit or boundary. Example sentencesExamples - These spaces of dispersion are marked with bourns which disappear amid the fields of scree as stones.
- In works such as these, the paint-splattered canvases, which suggest the wilder bourns of Abstract Expressionism, are subjected to all manner of indignities.
Synonyms limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination - 1.1 A goal or destination.
Example sentencesExamples - Many more men were taken ‘to that bourne from whence no traveller [sic] returns.’
- Travellers from distant bournes report that this is less of a problem in Fargo, North Dakota, but round here the sensibilities of Iranian hairdressers and Sri Lankan taxi drivers are gravely considered.
- It's quite hard to say, ‘The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns’ when your mum has just died. ‘If it be not now yet it will come.
- Northern Afghanistan was to these Assyrian kings the dumping ground for unconsidered numbers of slaves; a bourn from which no captive ever returned.
- In the most important soliloquy in the play, Hamlet allegedly says: ‘But that the dread of something after death / The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, troubles the will.’
Origin Early 16th century (denoting a boundary of a field): from French borne, from Old French bodne (see bound2). nounbɔrnbôrn dialect A small stream, especially one that flows intermittently or seasonally. Example sentencesExamples - The bourns are its arteries.
- But it seems likely that all sorcery will vanish with the bourns.
- I-I-I don't get you, he says thickly, in a stuttered upper-pitch that probably succeeds in shaving a bourne of phlegm off his wind-pipe.
- One of the many good touches in this book is its linguistic bent, as in the explanation of tilth and bourn, farming terms carried as baggage to the American Utopia.
Synonyms brook, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet
Origin Middle English: southern English variant of burn. nounbɔrnbôrn literary 1A limit or boundary. Example sentencesExamples - In works such as these, the paint-splattered canvases, which suggest the wilder bourns of Abstract Expressionism, are subjected to all manner of indignities.
- These spaces of dispersion are marked with bourns which disappear amid the fields of scree as stones.
Synonyms limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination - 1.1 A goal or destination.
Example sentencesExamples - Travellers from distant bournes report that this is less of a problem in Fargo, North Dakota, but round here the sensibilities of Iranian hairdressers and Sri Lankan taxi drivers are gravely considered.
- Northern Afghanistan was to these Assyrian kings the dumping ground for unconsidered numbers of slaves; a bourn from which no captive ever returned.
- In the most important soliloquy in the play, Hamlet allegedly says: ‘But that the dread of something after death / The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, troubles the will.’
- Many more men were taken ‘to that bourne from whence no traveller [sic] returns.’
- It's quite hard to say, ‘The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns’ when your mum has just died. ‘If it be not now yet it will come.
Origin Early 16th century (denoting a boundary of a field): from French borne, from Old French bodne (see bound). |