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Noun Bourne has 2 senses
- bourne(n = noun.location) bourn - an archaic term for a boundary; is a kind of bound, boundary, bounds
- bourne(n = noun.cognition) bourn - an archaic term for a goal or destination; is a kind of end, goal
CIDE DICTIONARY
Bourne, 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."
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Bourne, 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."
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"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns." [1913 Webster]
No traveler returns." [1913 Webster]
"Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song."
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"To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne."
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