What is another word for bourn?

Pronunciation: [bˈɔːn] (IPA)

The word bourn is often used as a synonym for a boundary or limit of something. However, there are several other synonyms that can be used interchangeably. For example, the word endpoint refers to a point at which something ends or terminates. In addition, the word margin refers to the outer edge or limit of something. Another synonym for bourn is perimeter, which refers to the boundary or circumference of an area. Finally, the word confines refers to the limits or boundaries of a particular situation or circumstance. Although these words all have similar meanings, they can be used in different contexts to convey specific nuances and shades of meaning.

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  • Reverse Entailment

    • Proper noun, singular
      bourne.

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Usage examples for Bourn

There making a little halt, at the side of a small bourn, which they call Cadage, he caused eighty of the company to light from their horses, and take the ladders, and other instruments which he had prepared, with them.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
For no one ever loved the Tweed Who was not loved by it in turn; It smiled in gentle Merlin's face, It soughs in sorrow round his bourn."
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
Then hail, ye blossoms of the grave, That o'er the care-worn temples wave- Sent to remind us of "that bourn, Whence traveller can ne'er return;" The harbingers of peace and rest, Where only mortals can be blest.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner

Famous quotes with Bourn

  • To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
    William Shakespeare

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