bourne

(noun)

noun

1. an archaic term for a boundary

Similar word(s): bourn

Definition categories: location, bound, boundary, bounds

2. an archaic term for a goal or destination

Similar word(s): bourn

Definition categories: thought, end, goal

Sentences with bourne as a noun:

- ..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 CĂ©vennes.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,r /> The flood may bear me far,r /> I hope to see my Pilot face to facer /> Whe