BOURNE
bourn, bourne
(noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination
bourn, bourne
(noun) an archaic term for a boundary
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Bourne
A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
A rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
A surname.
Anagrams
• unbore, unrobe
Noun
bourne (countable and uncountable, plural bournes)
(countable, archaic) A boundary.
(archaic) A goal or destination.
(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.
Anagrams
• unbore, unrobe
Source: Wiktionary
Bourn, Bourne, n. Etym: [OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v.]
Definition: A stream or rivulet; a burn. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.
Bourn, Bourne, n. Etym: [F. borne. See Bound a limit.]
Definition: A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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