Bourne Definition

noun

(countable, archaic) A boundary.

..and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[e]/ No traveller returnsShakespeare, Hamlet, Act III. Scene I.
"For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,The flood may bear me far,I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
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(archaic) A goal or destination.

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(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.
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Noun

Singular:
bourne
Plural:
bournes

Bourne Sentence Examples

  • The town itself lies in and about the valley of the Bourne stream.

  • Bourne in an article entitled "The Proposed Absorption of Mexico in 18 471848," published in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1899, i.

  • The revivalist group led by Bourne had become known as ' Camp Meeting Methodists '.

  • Bourne discusses the part which Polk took in preventing the complete absorption of Mexico.

  • The name of Wye belongs also to two smaller English rivers - (I) a right-bank tributary of the Derbyshire Derwent, rising in the uplands near Buxton, and having part of its early course through one of the caverns characteristic of the district; (2) a left-bank tributary of the Thames, watering the valley of the Chilterns in which lies Wycombe and joining the main river near Bourne End.

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