WINTERBOURNE

Etymology

Noun

winterbourne (plural winterbournes)

A stream that only flows in winter (or after wet weather)

Proper noun

Winterbourne

Any of several villages in Britain.

A large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6580).

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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