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Bourne - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun bourne

is a boundary.

bourne

English

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 returns
  • :: Shakespeare, 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 face
    When I have crossed the bar.
  • ::Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
  • (archaic) A goal or destination.
  • (countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.

    • See also

    * bourn

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    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.