Bourn

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  • noun. A destination; a goal.
  • noun. A boundary; a limit.
  • noun. A small stream; a brook.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See bone.
  • noun. A bound; limit; destination; goal: as, “beyond the bourn of sunset,”
  • noun. A stream; a brook: same as burn.
  • noun. [The word occurs in various place-names in Great Britain, as Bournemouth (that is, mouth of the burn or rivulet), Westbourne, etc.]
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A stream or rivulet; a burn.
  • noun. A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. destination
  • noun. limit
  • noun. A small stream or brook.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an archaic term for a boundary
  • noun. an archaic term for a goal or destination
    • Word Usage
    "There's really only one period in a life, the full stop, "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns," as Shakespeare put it."
    cross-reference
    bourne  
    Equivalent
    bourne  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bound  boundary  bounds  end  goal  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Born  Horn  Horne  Lorne  Thorn  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    backsliding  bourne  clothesbrush  depopulation  envelop  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adolescent stream  anchorage  arroyo  beck  border line  
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