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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

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Bourn

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Bourn has 2 senses

bourn(n = noun.location) bourne - an archaic term for a boundary;

is a kind of bound, boundary, bounds

bourn(n = noun.cognition) bourne - an archaic term for a goal or destination;

is a kind of end, goal

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Bourn, n. [OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. . The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v.].

A stream or rivulet; a burn. [1913 Webster]

"My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn." [1913 Webster]

Bourn, n. [F. borne. See Bound a limit.].

A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. [1913 Webster]

"Where the land slopes to its watery bourn." [1913 Webster]

"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns." [1913 Webster]

"Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song." [1913 Webster]

"To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Bourn, n. a small stream.

Bourn, n. (also bourne) archaic 1 a goal; a destination.
2 a limit.

Etymology

F borne f. OF bodne BOUND(2)

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THESAURUS

Bourn

adolescent stream, anchorage, arroyo, beck, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, braided stream, branch, break boundary, breakoff point, brook, brooklet, burn, ceiling, channel, circumscription, compass, confine, creek, crick, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, delimitation, destination, determinant, division line, end, extremity, finish, floor, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, frontier, gill, goal, harbor, haven, hedge, high-water mark, interface, kill, last stop, lazy stream, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, meandering stream, mete, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, port, race, racing stream, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spill stream, start, starting line, starting point, stop, stopping place, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, target date, term, terminal, terminal date, terminal point, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit, wadi, watercourse, waterway

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ROGET THESAURUS

Bourn

Limit

N limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of Hercules, Rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate, definite, conterminate, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering, thus far, thus far and no further, stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, Special.